{"id":136317,"date":"2021-09-23T20:32:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=136317"},"modified":"2021-09-23T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:02:19","slug":"csir-cmeri-solar-dc-cooking-system-a-step-towards-a-green-pollution-free-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/csir-cmeri-solar-dc-cooking-system-a-step-towards-a-green-pollution-free-india\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIR-CMERI Solar DC Cooking System- A Step Towards a Green &#038; Pollution Free India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (also known as CSIR-CMER) has developed a Solar DC Cooking System.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Solar<\/b><b> DC Cooking System?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solar DC Cooking System is a Solar Energy based Cooking System that consists of a solar PV panel, charge controller, battery bank and cooking oven.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Benefits of this System<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solar DC Cooking System has 20-25% better efficiency and is more Economical in comparison with Conventional Solar based Cooking Systems which loses efficiency owing to AC-DC conversion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system can also substantially<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> curb carbon dioxide emissions, as even LPG usage emits CO2. It may help save 290 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, its simple design ensures ease of manufacturing and thus provides a substantial economic opportunity to micro-industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are AC and DC?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Alternating Current (AC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a type of electrical current, in which the direction of the flow of electrons switches back and forth at regular intervals or cycles. Current flowing in power lines and normal household electricity that comes from a wall outlet is alternating current.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>On the other hand, Direct current (DC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an electrical current that flows consistently in one direction. The current that flows in a flashlight or another appliance running on batteries is a direct current.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201d<\/b><b>CSIR-CMERI Solar DC Cooking System- A Step Towards a Green &amp; Pollution Free India<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB on 22nd September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (also known as CSIR-CMER) has developed a Solar DC Cooking System. What is the Solar DC Cooking System? Solar DC Cooking System is a Solar Energy based Cooking System that consists of a solar PV panel, charge controller, battery bank and cooking oven.\u00a0 Benefits of this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/csir-cmeri-solar-dc-cooking-system-a-step-towards-a-green-pollution-free-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSIR-CMERI Solar DC Cooking System- A Step Towards a Green &#038; Pollution Free India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704876979},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}