IYCN energizing with the Green Camp

Written by Moksh Juneja / 24 January 2009 / Read Moksh Juneja's latest blog entries.

The 3rd weekend of Jan is one of the many occasions when the traffic on the Adi Shankarachaya road gets really bad, but for good reasons, one of them being TechfestIITB.

                While the response on the Greencamp workshop which was conceptualized along with the techfest team was phenomenon ally amazing, looking at the participation and the crowd in real time was exhilarating.

                Techfest, the Annual International Science and Technology Festival of IIT Bombay with nerve-racking Competitions to Lectures by noted luminaries, from incredible Workshops to fun-filled Ozone, Techfest 2009 had everything to conquer a child's imagination. The techfest tagline of Defying convention seemed to be apt for our climate solutions. 

 (Left: IIT student solar robot team)

                One of the events that we were really following closely was energize. Energise is all about the rising oil prices which are spiraling out of control, the economies of the world are struggling to get hold of the situation. The fast depleting reserves of fossil fuels are only adding to the misery and the world is in desperate need for answers. The course of the human race will be determined by the effectiveness with which we learn to exploit alternative sources of energy. Energy crisis is one of the most burning topics today, and more so in the rural regions.

Thousands of villages are yet to receive electricity, leaving millions of people in the shadow of darkness. The problem statement focused on how to produce a minimum amount of power using any renewable source of energy, and you might bring light into the lives of thousands.