WHY THE NEUCLEAR DEAL?

Our country today is in the midst of a major power crisis. When India first approached the USA with regards to want of Uranium for our nuclear power plants about 18 months ago, there was a severe power shortage in the capital itself with unscheduled power cuts ranging for about 4 – 6 hours a day.

Now more recently, our State Government has gone public with the statistics that Tamil Nadu is short of 1000 MW of power a day. This deficiency comes despite the fact that our State Government is purchasing power from the West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Andra Pradesh Governments for Rs. 50 crores. So, taking all these into consideration and accepting the fact that we are short of uranium and we need to run seventeen uranium based nuclear power pants (www.npcil.nic.in) across the country, I would say this deal is very important to our country.

Some may argue, despite buying uranium from the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group) the nuclear power that is going to be generated ten years down the line will account for a meager 5% of our requirements, imagine what difficulties we will have to face in the absence of this 5% power that is required. The nuclear power is cheaper and cleaner than thermal power generated on any given day as long as the nuclear waste is disposed carefully and safely.

Some others may say thorium reactors are coming up, thorium is found abundantly in our country, then why go for uranium? Research is going on to build thorium reactors and would easily take another forty – fifty years to operationalise them. For forty odd years we cannot be dependent on something that is most likely to give us power, for the immediate requirements there is no choice but get uranium. Also after the thorium reactors begin functioning, we need not shut down the uranium reactors, they can still supply power for us.

In the future, history will only haunt us if we don’t sign this deal today.

AMAZING AD

This is one hell of an ad i have seen. No prizes for guessing it is indeed an axe commercial

Testify

Well all you should have heard the words Testify and Testimonial, ever wondered how these words came into being? Well here is the story behind the origin of these words.

In Netherlands (ancient days) there was a practice in the courts, men didn't swear on any holy book like the Bible. Instead they were asked to swear on their Testis or Testicles (the male reproductive organ) while being prosecuted. And thats how people were later asked to Testify and give their Testimonial on people in the courts.

Now i have no clue if any kind of operation was performed on people if they were found to be lying, but this is how these words came into origin.

P.S. : This post on my friend's blog inspired me to write this post (read all the comments). PSP you are greatest orkut professional i have ever seen.

CONGRATULATIONS

After dissolving the IHF(Indian Hockey Federation) the team did well to come second in the Azlan Shah hockey tournament, their best in the last 12 years. The Indian team managed to get bronze in the last two editions, improving by a position this time around. This successful outing has come in a great time for the Indian hockey, after their embarrassing performance which cost from playing in the Bejing Olympics.

Also hearty congratulations to Manchester United Football Club, who did the double of wining the UEFA champions league and the English Premiere League. Sir Alex Ferguson deserves credit for the spectacular performance of this young squad, he has won ten premiership titles and two champions league titles (including this one) with Man-Utd.

A.R.R. IS BACK!

The musical genius A.R. Rahman is back in business by having two of his Hindi film albums released within the span of 1 week. Me being one of his greatest fans have got my hands on the albums already (in fact I' m listening to the song titled Meherban sung by the maestro himself from the movie ADA while writing this post). The movies include ADA directed by Ahmad Tanvir and Jane Tu Ya Jaane Na directed Abbas Tyrewala and produced by Aamir Khan. As of now the title songs of both albums seems impressive apart from that the song titled "KABHI KABHI" from the movie Jane Tu Ya Jaane Na seems to be catching on to me like some kind of virus.

YET AGAIN!!!

There is a famous old saying "WISE MAN LEARNS FROM OTHER'S MISTAKES, A FOOL DOES NOT EVEN LEARN FROM HIS OWN MISTAKES". And this certainly holds good for one of the most influential and most powerful man on earth THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Mr. GEORGE W. BUSH, how many times have we seen him goof-up his speeches, how many bloopers has he been involved with... and despite all this he does not get a sense of what he should be talking and when, such is the case now. Mr. Bush gives a statement to the press
"I HAVE STOPPED PLAYING GOLF FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS AS A MARK OF RESPECT TO THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SOLDIER RELATIVES IN THE IRAQ WAR".

I say "BLOODY HELL IF YOU ARE SO DAMN CONCERNED ON ALL THE SOLDIERS, WHY THE HELL THEN WAGE A WAR?". When the hell will this man learn how to talk and when to talk... Thank god the term of the world's greatest misanthropist president is coming to an end.

P.S. : NDTV had quoted this Bush's statement when questioned on playing golf.

CAN HAPPEN ONLY HERE

Iam a third year engineering student at an anna university affiliated college. recently my sixth semester exams concluded and i would like to share a special experience i had from this sem exams. I had a course called "SOLID STATE DRIVES" and in this paper there was a problem which goes like

14. (a) (ii) A 7mw three phase 12KV star connected 6 pole 50 Hz 0.9 power factor synchronous motor has Xs=10 ohms and Rs=0. The rated field current is 40 Amps. The Machine is controlled by variable frequency control at constant V/f ratio upto the base speed and at constant V above the base speed. Determine

(1) Torque and
(2) The field current for the rated armature current 750 rpm and 0.8 leading power factor.

and such blunders can happen only in anna university.


P.S. : for those who dint get it,
(1) check the bold characters in the first line of the question
it is impossible to manufacture a machine that takes in 7 milli watts power at a rated voltage of 12 kilo volts.

(2) check the bold characters in no. of determine where the rated armature current is 750 rpm, sad these people knew little that speed is rated in rpm and current is rated in Amps.


i really feel ashamed to be associated with the so-called Asia's largest technical university