Four legged robotic mule

Checkout this video of a Robotic mule developed by Boston Dynamics. This gasoline beast developed for U.S. Army have amazing life-like responses.

Sunrise

Captured this video on my trip to Vijayawada

Mr Woo's home made robots

Here's a great clip of some beautiful home-made robots created by a Chinese farmer Mr Woo.

Magical Hampi

Photographs from my Hampi trip Solitude of Green Shutter speed: 1/350s Focal Length: 23.1mm Vittala Temple Shutter speed : 1/125s Focal Length : 17.5mm In Hampi every stone has its own story Musical pillars of Vittala Temple Shutter speed: 1/500s

Low Temperature Thermal Desalination

14 years back I read an article about sea water desalination plant which works on the temperature difference that exists between deep and shallow waters, but I wondered why no one is putting these ideas to practice in spite of drinking water problems in many parts of the world. Recently while digging for information related to Setu Samudram project I happened to read about NIOT’s desalination project (Low Temperature Thermal Desalination) in kavaratti based on the temperature gradient of the sea waters. LTTD works something like this the warm ocean waters from the surface are evaporated in low pressure containers and the cold waters from the deep oceans are used to cool the vapours. With a heat engine electricity can also be generated from the water vapours. I feel this technology is better alternative to silicon based solar harnessing technologies which requires huge surface areas for solar panels. http://www.niot.res.in/Desalination/main.php