The Global warming challenge
Cop10 air conditioning
1 kW solar gives 5 kw aircon
Seems to defy laws of science
But it is here and real
Indian industry has traditionally been dominated by barely literate, bank-looting, tender-seeking, culturally non-diverse, cartel-forming businessmen from two communities – Marwaris and Gujratis. They could get ahead, not because of native intelligence or technology or even business acumen – but primarily because of being able to assemble a complete ecosystem of fraud to access scarce capital. The two communities accounted for 50%+ of all chartered accountants and 70%+ of the stock brokers.
The Marwaris, who are incredible risk takers – first dominated Kolkata and then moved to mumbai where they had to contend with the well settled Gujratis. They then got into an unstable equilibrium by sharing industries. The Gujratis did cotton, diamonds etc whilst the Marwaris developed global trading, agri etc.
When the first phase of liberalisation started – they forgot their differences – and rallied together to keep the others out. India invented the concept of an “equity free company”. Essentially the promoters put in nothing and the project was built with bank borrowing and public equity.
Among all this a few businessmen stood out. These were people like JRD Tata, Keshub Mahindra, Dhruv Sawhney, Rahul Bajaj, Ashok Piramal etc. They were industrialists. The rest were traders. Most of them had premium educational degrees. Some like Yadhupati Singhania and VK Modi even went to the IITs.
These industrialists lay the foundations of India’s private sector. Alongside some of the other trader businessmen sent their children to premium colleges and we had a set of new age industrialists like Mukesh Ambani Harsh Goenka and Azim Premji. These industrialists have done India proud.
In my growing up years, I had the opportunity of interacting with many of the educated industrialists who were quite a role model for me. Many of them became friends and clients. Several had their children intern with me.
Today I was indeed pleased to hear of Dhruv Sawhney’s success with building a cop6 heat engine. It’s been over 30 years since we last met. Triveni Turbines is now the worlds second largest mfr of steam turbines below 100 MW with a global market share in excess of 20% and a US3B market cap.
It is a matter of national pride that Dhruv and Triveni have achieved this incredible feat
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A cop6 system is almost magic. One kw of solar will give you 3 kw of cooling and 3 kw of heating (3+3 yields a co eff of performance of 6) It does so by using the Carnot cycle in place of the Rankine cycle. There is no refrigerant and the operating fluid is carbon dioxide.
I learnt about Cop10 (ten is around the theoretical limit) from personal tuitions with Padma Sri Ashok Jhunjhunwala only last year. I am delighted to see an Indian system take shape.
