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Industry Structure- Energy Transmission.
Industry Structure-Energy Distribution
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(Table content – source TERI) Coal, oil, and natural gas are the three primary commercial energy sources. India’s energy policy, till the end of the 1980s, was mainly based on availability of indigenous resources. Coal was by far the largest source of energy. Coal: It accounts for 55% of the country’s total energy supplies. India now ranks 3rd amongst the coal producing countries in the world Through sustained increase in investment, increased from about 70 MT (million tonnes) (MoC 2005) in early 1970s to 382 MT in 2004/05. Most of the coal production in India comes from open pit mines contributing to over 81% of the total production while underground mining accounts for rest of the national output (MoC 2005). Despite this increase in production, the existing demand exceeds the supply. India currently faces coal shortage of 23.96 MT. This shortage is likely to be met through imports mainly by steel, power, and cement sector (MoC 2005). Oil and gas: India’s consumption of natural gas has risen faster than any other fuel in the recent years. Natural gas demand has been growing at the rate of about 6.5% during the last 10 years. Industries such as power generation, fertilizer, and petrochemical production are shifting towards natural gas. India’s natural gas consumption has been met entirely through domestic production in the past. According to the Parikh Committee report of 2001-02, up to 10% of the total energy requirement of the country is met by Crude oil, and Gas meets up to 8% of the total energy requirement. However, in the last 4/5 years, there has been a huge unmet demand of natural gas in the country, mainly required for the core sectors of the economy. To bridge this gap, apart from encouraging domestic production, the import of LNG (liquefied natural gas) is being considered as one of the possible solutions for India’s expected gas shortages. Several LNG terminals have been planned in the country. Two LNG terminals have already been commissioned: (1) Petronet LNG Terminal of 5 MTPA (million tonnes per annum) at Dahej, and (2) LNG import terminal at Hazira. In addition, an in-principle agreement has been reached with Iran for import of 5 MTPA of LNG. Hydropower and nuclear power have still not been completely exploited.
Industry Structure-Oil and Gas-Refining Capacity
(Source of the table content- TERI) In India, the per capita electricity consumption for 2005-06 at 631KWH (CEA General Review 2006) remains far below the world average of 2429KWH. Despite increasing dependency on commercial fuels, a sizeable quantum of energy requirements (40% of total energy requirement), especially in the rural household sector, is met by non-commercial energy sources, which include fuel wood, crop residue, and animal waste, including human and draught animal power. However, other forms of commercial energy of a much higher quality and efficiency are steadily replacing the traditional energy resources being consumed in the rural sector. The indicator of energy–GDP (gross domestic product) elasticity, that is, the ratio of growth rate of energy to the growth rate GDP, reflects both the structure of the economy as well as the efficiency. The energy–GDP elasticity during 1953–2001 has been above unity. However, the elasticity for primary commercial energy consumption for 1991–2000 was less than unity (Planning Commission 2002). This could be attributed to several factors, some of them being demographic shifts from rural to urban areas, structural economic changes towards lesser energy industry, impressive growth of services, improvement in efficiency of energy use, and inter-fuel substitution. ^Top  Pi (  )Pi = 3.14159265…….. Pi Day is celebrated on the 14th of March (3/14). It is also the birthday of Einstein. Just like any other day of celebration (Valentines day and Mother’s day), Geeks around the world celebrate Pi Day. Pi or is a mathematical constant. (A mathematical constant is a number that arises naturally in mathematics).
The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter. is one of the most important mathematical and physical constants. is used in many formulae in mathematics, science and engineering.
William Jones and Leonhard Paul Euler (18th century Mathematicians from Europe) were the first to use and popularize the .
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Interesting facts:  In 2005, 14159265 (first eight digits of pi after the decimal) shares were offered by Google.Pi is mentioned in movies such as ‘Torn Curtain’ (1966) and ‘Pi’ (1998).The Egyptians gave a value of 22/7 to .The Babylonians gave an estimate of as 3+1/8 or 3.125also has reference in the Bible and it gives a value of 3 for it.How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics! The number of letters in each word represents successive digits of pi: 3.14159265358979.Felix Jung has created a delightful way to convert the first 10,000 digits of pi into music using a Flash-based animationPi Memorisation sport record holder is China’s Lu Chao, who in 2005, recited 67890 digits of Pi in 24 hours and 4 minutes.Indian national Krishna Chahal, in June 2006, accurately recited upto 43000 digits of pi after the decimal in 5 Hours and 21 minutes.http://3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097.org/ is a web page.Note: Compiled from various sources. This site does not guarantee the accuracy of information provided. ^Top |
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