A summary of the Think Tank Initiative's meet at Mysore (Karnataka, India)

Information technology has become a powerful enabler of increased efficiency and
control in various business processes in all facets of human activity The power

As a large developing country, India’s challenge is to meet its development aspirations in a carbon-constrained world This study, undertaken by the Centre for Study of Science Technology and Policy (CSTEP) uses Sustainable Development (SD) as the overarching framework and aims at equitable access to energy, clean air and water, food, health and livelihoods and economic growth The study connects elements of SD in an integrated bottom-up approach to understand the implications for economy, energy trajectories, emissions and costs

A presentation on storage options and materials for renewable energy applications

Rare earths are not as rare as the name suggests, they are relatively abundant in the earth`s crust,
but their concentration is less in ore deposits, in particular heavy rare earths. Commercially,
REEs are extracted from the bastnasite, monazite and xenotime ores. The extraction of REEs
from mineral ore (primary source) is a complicated multi step process with a huge amount of
toxic wa ste released during the processes. The recovery of REEs from secondary sources such

An approach towards an intelligent transportation system

CSTEP's attempt at an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) based approach towards health and nutrition.

Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR) are expected to play a major role in India’s power program and help utilise the country’s large thorium (Th) reserves It is important to examine in detail all issues including economics, safety, and security In this study, we have evaluated the economics of electricity from FBRs We propose to examine safety and security aspects in a future work This report also compares the cost of electricity from PFBR with other sources including PHWRs

This paper was presented as part of the High Speed Rail Symposium Conference, 2013.

Polyanion based cathode materials are most promising candidates for lithium ion batteries due to low cost, safety, environmental friendliness, etc. We performed first principles based DFT calculations to understand the stability, charge transfer mechanism and electrochemical performance of olivine phosphates, silicates and its comparison with the transition metal layered oxides based cathode materials. We have computed the changes in oxidation states using Bader method of topological analysis and charge re-distribution by analysis of partial density of electronic states.