Saturday, October 15, 2016

October 1 to 15, 2016:Hurricane Matthew:Plastic Solar Cells Food additives:Coconut tree lightning:Electric Van Mahindra:Volcano Mount Aso

        trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com                           Volume 2016, Issue No.10,  Dt: 1 to 15 October 2016, Time:10:24:05
                                       
         October 1-15, 2016: Hurricane Matthew:Plastic Solar Cells Food additives                              Coconut tree lightning:Electric Van Mahindra:Volcano Mount Aso
                                                      by
             Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
M.Sc. (Math. Phys) M.Sc. (Nucl. Phys) Ph. D. (AU), Int. Edu & Res. (Sweden 1964-65) 
DOB:23-07-1940. [Retd. Prof of Physics; Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004]
Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
      Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.
kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com;  lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
                
 A bandage that tells when you need to change. US teenager Anushka Naiknaware, a seventh grader at won $15,000 for her invention of Stoller Middle School in Portland, designed and tested a bandage with embedded with tiny monitors.  Sensors were printed in a fractal pattern with ink containing graphene nano-particles they would detect when moisture levels have dropped. It was a physical and tangible reality. She won a scholarship, a free trip to Lego world, in Denmark and a year of entrepreneurship reported The Oregonian. “Brahma with Brahmini” a sculptor returned to India by Britishers. Relentless Rain, flash floods wreak havoc in Marathwada with heavy downpour for the past 48 hours. Latur, Osmanabad, Beed and Solapur districts led to overflowing of dams in the region opening their sluice gates on Sunday. Sina Kolegaon dam gates opened while earth-filled Chandani dam was reported over flowing. Terna dam is also overflowing for the first time after 2010. Eleven gates of Majalgaon dam in Bee district were opened to drain out the excess water. National highway 211 connecting Aurangabad with Solapur district saw massive snarling traffic. A thunderbolt struck on a Coconut tree in Seethammadhara area on Thursday opposite (P and T colony) drinking water supply division in the evening, in Muralinagar, and a great lightning and flames have evolved.  The Electric Van in India launched by Mahindra costing Rs. 8.65 lakh only. On Friday 7 Oct there was rain in Vijayawada, and Electric substation in Krishnalanka Capacity of Voltage transformer was hit by a lightning stroke and high rising flames have enveloped. CVT pingani specks have been thrown away about 500 meters. Several people got injured and some are moved to Hospital and were treated. The pingani pieces have hit three cars, two skario vehicles, and shattered the windows of Durga Temple bus and several vehicles wheels were punctured. The upper air circulation over Odisha and neighbourhood, extending up to 5.8 km above mean sea level, tilting Southwestwards with height persists. Heavy rain likely on 8 Oct 2016, in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari will Sunday 9 Oct. 2016 afternoon. Indian Scientist Abhishek Swarnakar produced stable solar cell with 10.77% conversion efficiency. They used cesium lead iodide with reduced size of crystals to nanometer range. The material was able to absorb visible sunlight to 700 nm. Material retains cubic phase, even at room temperature. The nanocrystals were found to be stable from -196C to about 200C. On Oct 9 night at 7h45m PM in Srikakulam, Earth experienced a mild tremor and people ran from residences on to the road, though no structural damages or life loss have been reported. Etcherla, Ranastalam, Ponduru mandals felt the quake. At 22:59 on 10 October 2016: Hari Kotcherlakota harik.email@gmail.com;http://hari-google-blog.blogspot.com/ My solar panels 2009 16% efficient. Best solar panels today 18%. Vijaya Dashami, a noted festival days of India fell on Tuesday 11 Oct 2016. 12 Oct 2016: It was very hot in Visakhapatnam and around 11:45 AM hot wind was blowing and people in the bus travelling also felt the heat. I made a trip to the shop in the morning around 11 AM. I had been to the Spectacles lens maker and she gave me the spectacles around 6 PM. Using the argon-argon dating technique, by which scientists measure the decay of an isotope called Argon-40 into Argon-39 in order to find the age of crystals, they came up with a rough approximation of the footprints' age: 19,000 years at the oldest, 10,000 or 12,000 years at the youngest.  The medical doctor of age 78 years Dr David Wiebe, from Nebraska, USA, visited Dr Lalitha Kumari MD (USA) Y' Day and today he stayed in the NOVOTEL Hotel and with Dr Lalitha and myself made Visakhapatnam sightseeing trip. He visited AU both North and South campuses, Fishing capture and ground area, had 30 minute boat ride in the beach nearing the fishing complex area, saw an old church on the top of hill, visited the old schools of Lalitha, Vani and Bobji, and most importantly paid visit to the NARASIMHA ASHRAM, residential building of Late Prof. K R Rao D.Sc.(Madras), D.Sc.(London), in Maharanipeta, visited the KGH. Y' Day he visited Bhimili beach and after checking into the hotel novotel, from 3 pm to 5 pm, and later had been to the Shiva Hill, and enjoyed a train ride of 20 minute, on the top of the hill. Had been to a corner of scenery view and had photos taken. His family enjoyed the receipt of photos.  

 


DETAILS
                   30 Sept 2016:Meteorologists said an "intense seismic swarm" had been recorded since Thursday morning. Earthquake swarms occur when sequences of quakes strike in a relatively short period of time.
    
Fig.1 Brahma with Brahmini a sculptor returned to
India by Britishers News 2 Oct 2016.
2:42, UK, Sunday: 
                  Jamaicans take shelter ready for 155 mph Hurricane Matthew: Some fluctuations in intensity are possible over the next couple of days, but Matthew is expected to remain a powerful hurricane as it makes its closest approach to Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas. Street Flooding in Jamaica Ahead of Matthew Heavy rains trap cars in Kingston's streets.
Fig.2  Hurricane Matthew 3 Oct 2016
                            Food stores see long queues as people on the Caribbean island prepare for what could be their worst storm for decades. Its winds are gusting up to 155mph (250kph), making it one of the most powerful in recent years. 
5 Oct 2016 
                            The Washington Post reported that the extent of the destruction in Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest nation, is still unknown after Matthew struck with 145 mph winds. International aid teams are struggling to reach areas cut off by mud slides and washed-out bridges. Having calmed somewhat since to a still-major 115 mph Category-3 hurricane, Matthew's path toward the US has grown clearer. It's projected to be right off the coast of Florida by Thursday evening. Hurricane warnings are in effect across much of the eastern coast of Florida, with hurricane watches in the north and tropical storm watches in the south. Florida has not been hit by a hurricane since Wilma in 2005. The NOAA still projects Matthew will be a "major" hurricane with winds over 110 mph when it hits Florida.

October 06, 2016 18:45 IST
              Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday and intensified as it barrelled toward the south-eastern U.S. coast where millions of residents heeded warnings to flee inland. Roadways in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina were jammed and gas stations and food stores ran out of supplies as the storm approached, bringing storm surges, heavy rain and sustained winds that accelerated overnight to about 125 miles (205 km) per hour. Matthew, which killed at least 39 people and displaced thousands, mostly in southern Haiti, was predicted to strengthen from a Category 3 to 4 storm enroot to Florida's Atlantic coast. Landfall was expected there on Thursday night. The hurricane warning area farther north into Georgia and more than 12 million U.S. residents were under a hurricane watches and warnings. 

1 OCTOBER 2016 • 12:06PM:BLACK MOON: 
                A second full moon in a single calendar month is sometimes called a blue moon. A black moon is supposedly the flip side of a blue moon; the second new moon in a single calendar month.  

EATABLES BLESSED SOLAR CELLS: 
              Plastic Solar Cells Food additives: Efficient plastic solar cells replacing the chemically hazardous material with a flavoring agent used commonly in eatables. NCSU and CAS plan fr commercial production.

Jerger Future Leader of Audiology:
                  An Indian-American, an Associate Professor, Vinaya Manchaiah at Larmar University, Texas named as 'Jerger Future Leaders of Audiology' . He holds a degree from Linkoping University, Sweden.


THE HINDU: 
                              First Sepoy Mutiny took place in Visakhapatnam on 3 October 1780, when they were forced to board a ship at 3 PM. A few Sepoys levelled their muskets and fired a volley instantly killing the Lt. Crisp, Cadets, Kingsford Venner and Robert Rutherford the pay master, and seriously injured Capt. Maxtone and Capt. Lane and took Casamajor and several other civil servants into captivity,  released a French spy from jail prison. The mutineers looted property of Rs. 21, 999/- on the morning of 4 October but marched out but at the behest of Gajapathi Narain Deo a local Zamindar, freed them. Later the rebels were cornered near a gorge in Gudderallywanka at Payakraopeta, no record of what happened to them. A Hickey’s Gazette gives a brief report.  The news caused shock waves that went up to London. 

03 October 2016: 
                               Relentless Rain, flash floods wreak havoc in Marathwada with heavy downpour for the past 48 hours. Latur, Osmanabad, Beed and Solapur districts led to overflowing of dams in the region opening their sluice gates on Sunday. Sina Kolegaon dam gates opened while earth-filled Chandani dam was reported over flowing. Terna dam is also overflowing for the first time after 2010. Eleven gates of Majalgaon dam in Bee district were opened to drain out the excess water. National highway 211 connecting Aurangabad with Solapur district saw massive snarling traffic.
AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS THE FESTIVAL OF INDIA
            Men in lungis might seem incongruous with the hallowed arts centre. But that is the essence of Confluence, "The Festival of India", which celebrates Indian arts and culture, from August 15 to November 8, across seven Australian cities. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the festival during his visit to Australia in 2014 and, in July this year, the Australian government announced 250,000 dollars to support it. 

4  and 5 Oct 2016 
                           In the morning it was very hot with tap water running hot till 2 PM when suddenly weather changed, with thundershowers and lightning lasted till 5 PM in the evening. For one and half hours it rained heavily from 4PM to 5.30PM.  At 19 PM it was thundering and  with slight rain. On 5 Oct it was very hot in the morning till 3.30PM and it became cool afterwards but no rain in spite of heavy clouds.
6 Oct 2016
                                             
                                      Fig.3  Ganesh idol made of 30,000 matchsticks on display at Panaji.

US Teenager wins $15000/-
                    A bandage that tells when you need to change. US teenager Anushka Naiknaware, a seventh grader at  won $15,000 for her invention of Stoller Middle School in Portland, designed and tested a bandage with embedded with tiny monitors.  Sensors were printed in a fractal pattern with ink containing graphene nano-particles they would detect when moisture levels have dropped. It was a physical and tangible reality. She won a scholarship, a free trip to Lego world, in Denmark and an year of entrepreneurship reported The Oregonian. 

6 Oct 2016 : Unusual Coconut tree struck by Lightning

                    Heavy rain in the afternoon from 2.30PM struck Visakhapatnam, though morning was a blazing hot day. It was drizzling till 7 PM in Visakhapatnam. A thunderbolt struck on a Coconut tree in Seethammadhara area on Thursday opposite (P andT colony) drinking water supply division in the evening, in Muralinagar, and a great lightning and flames have evolved. 


Fig.4 It is an extremely rare event of a thunderbolt
struck the Coconut Tree in Muralinagar, 
opposite P and T colony,  Visakhapatnam. 6 Oct 2016.

                Dwarka Head constable examined the area. Far off areas in Visakhapatnam beyond Muralinagar, and beyond experienced a heavy rainfall for about two and half hours. It was an usual heavy rainfall. 

PLASMA BALLS 07 Oct 2016
                       The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the moon. This stellar "cannon fire" has continued once every 8.5 years for at least the past 400 yearsAccording to this theory, the companion would have to be in an elliptical orbit that carries it close to the red giant's puffed-up atmosphere every 8.5 years. As the companion enters the bloated star's outer atmosphere, it gobbles up material. This material then settles into a disk around the companion, and serves as the launching pad for blobs of plasma, which travel at roughly a half-million miles per hour. Planetary nebulae aren't like regular nebula, which are the birthplace of stars. Instead, they're swirling rings of glowing gas that are expelled by dead or dying stars. Each one is unique, but no one has been able to explain how they form.

HOT MORNING AND RAINY AFTERNOONS                                 
                       7 Oct 2016 morning it was blistering hot, just went to collect my monthly interest at Financial Mart, Dwarakangar,  and by 2.30PM the clouds have amassed and continuous rain till late night. 
                                 In AP every year about 2500 people die due to fall of thunderbolts. Bharat Space environment Society plans to inform half an hour earlier where the thunderbolt would strike. The satellites of AP stationed in the sky and on ground would be able to assess in advance where the thunderbolts would strike. The predictions for fall of rains, are divided as far reaching, middle time (within one or two  months)and short time (within two to three hours) notices to the Zilla information centres.                 
Mahindra launches all electric van
 Indian Express news Dated 7 October 2016.
Fig.5 The Electric Van in India launched by Mahindra
Vijayawada Electric Sub Station 
                      On Friday 7 Oct there was rain in Vijayawada, and Electric substation in Krishnalanka Capacity of Voltage transformer was hit by a lightning stroke and high rising flames have enveloped. CVT pingani specks have been thrown away about 500 meters. Several people got injured and  some are moved to Hospital and were treated. The pingani pieces have hit three cars, two skario vehicles, and shattered the windows of Durga Temple bus and several vehicles wheels were punctured.
VOLCANO ON 1:46 AM SATURDAY
                           Mount Aso, a volcano on Japan's main southern island of Kyushu, erupted early on Saturday, spewing volcanic ash 11,000 meters (7 miles) into the sky. Eruption, which began at 1:46 a.m. local time (1646 GMT Friday) on one of the peaks of the 1,592-metre (5,222 feet) mountain in Kumamoto Prefecture. It was the first "explosive eruption" at the peak since January 1980. The alert level for the volcano to level 3 on a scale of 5, people   warned of falling rocks. It also warned of falling ash in 10 prefectures. Volcanic ash had accumulated on cars, houses and roads in the city of Aso and ash was falling as far as 320 km (200 miles) away, Japanese media said. Tomatoes and asparagus were being grown 6-8 km (4-5 miles) away from the crater had been broken by ash and small rocks. Window was cracked by a falling rock at an Aso youth centre about 5 km (3 miles) away from the crater but there were no reports of injuries. "We are concerned that more damage on crops will be reported". Kyushu Electric Power Co said the eruption had no impact on its Sendai nuclear plant, which is about 160 km (100 miles) south of Mount Aso and is one of the two reactors that are online in Japan. Up to 29,000 households lost power shortly after the eruption but the problem was fixed in less than two hours, a spokesman at Kyushu Electric said. Mount Aso is one of the most active peaks in Japan but is also a popular hiking spot.

UMA BHARTI ON FRIDAY  7 Oct                 
                   India is close to being categorised as "water scarce", Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti Friday said, citing increasing demand, uncertain availability and over exploitation of rivers as the causes. She made the remarks at the World Sustainable Development Summit here where the Centre signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on water resources development and management with the European Union.
                      Till Friday morning, it rained Paderu 9 cm, Bhimili 8 cm, Pathapatnam and Denkada 6 cm.

INDIAN SCIENTIST:  Solar Cell 10.77% Efficiency                    
             The "Science" journal on October 7, 2016 reported that Abhishek Swarnakar research student of Chemistry Department, from IISER as the lead author, and others from NRE Laboratory Colorado, produced stable solar cell with 10.77% conversion efficiency. They used cesium lead iodide with reduced size of crystals to nanometer range. The material was able to absorb visible sunlight to 700 nm. Material retains cubic phase,  even at room temperature. The nanocrystals were found to be stable from -196C to about 200C. Bigger size crystals absorb only at 400 nm. 
SOLAR DEVICES
at 22:59  on 10 October 2016: Hari  kotcherlakota <harik.email@gmail.com>
http://hari-google-blog.blogspot.com/   My solar panels 2009 16% efficient. Best solar panels today 18%.

8 and 9 Oct 2016: 
              It rained in Ramagundam 13 cm,Moulali, Mancherial, Sultanabad, 9 cm, Lakshettipet 8 cm, Eturunagaram 7 cm. The upper air circulation over Odisha and neighbourhood, extending up to 5.8 km above mean sea level, tilting Southwestwards with height persists. Heavy rain likely in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari will Sunday afternoon.
                   It rained, till Sunday 9 Oct morning, Burgampahad 20 cm, Bhadrachalam 9 cm, Birkuru, Dornakalu, Varni 7 cm, Tekulapally, Palvancha, and in Govindaraopet 6 cm. There was rain in Visakhapatnam from 4:30 PM 
                        4500 years ago in Sindhu valley, discovered Mohenjodaro in 1926 by Ernest Mache, the astounding Dancing Doll made up of Kansya justifies the extraordinary metallurgical skill of the Bharat sculptors.                           
                      On Oct 9 night at 7h45m PM in Srikakulam, Earth experienced a mild tremor and people ran from residences on to the road, though no structural damages or life loss have been reported. Etcherla, Ranastalam, Ponduru mandals felt the quake.

10 and 11 Oct 2016
              On 10 Oct 2016 the weather has changed and Visakhapatnam had a very sunny weather. On 11 Oct it was extremely hot and even the tap water at homes became very hot. Due to Dasara holiday on 10 Oct, there were no NEWSPAPERS delivered on 11 Oct 2016.
12 Oct 2016
                It was very hot in Visakhapatnam and around 11:45 AM hot wind was blowing and people in the bus travelling also felt the heat. I made a trip to the shop in the morning around 11 AM. I had been to the Spectacles lens maker and she gave me the spectacles around 6 PM.
5  Oct 2016 
                                Had been to the doctor for my eye care.
                                                                   a.Second Page

                                                                   b.First page and the details.
 
c. Medicines prescribed for Eye Drops & Ointment
today by Dr Vanisri, at Govt Hospital on 13 Oct 2016
Fig.6 a,b,c : The Spectacles recommendation 
on the 5 Oct 2016

SWEDEN                 
                      More than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden last year, more per capita than any other country in Europe.
Fig.7 The Florida Atlantic coast line last week affected
by hurricane Matthe last week.

ANCIENT HUMAN FOOTPRINTS      
October 13, 2016 08:58 IST: The Washington Post    
           The site in northern Tanzania is the largest assemblage of ancient human footprints in Africa and one of the biggest on the planet, Liutkus-Pierce and her colleagues reported in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. The 400-odd footprints, which cover an area the size of a tennis court, were imprinted in deposits from an ancient flood, dried, then covered up with a second layer of mud and preserved for as many as 19,000 years.  Using the argon-argon dating technique, by which scientists measure the decay of an isotope called Argon-40 into Argon-39 in order to find the age of crystals, they came up with a rough approximation of the footprints' age: 19,000 years at the oldest, 10,000 or 12,000 years at the youngest.    
T-Rays 
          European and Russian scientists have proposed a new method using much more rapid terahertz radiation, aka "T-rays," the same things used in airport body scanners. According to their research,  published in the journal Nature, swapping out magnetic fields for T-rays could crank up the rate of the cell-resetting process by a factor of 1000, which could be used to create ultrafast memory. The radiation is actually a series of short electromagnetic pulses pinging the cells at terahertz frequencies (which have wavelengths of about 0.1 millimeter, lying between microwaves and infrared light, according to the scientists' press release). Most of the recent T-ray experiments have dealt with quick, precise inspections of organic and mechanical material.
14 and 15 October 2016
                     The medical doctor of age 78 years Dr David Wiebe, from Nebraska, USA, visited Dr Lalitha Kumari MD (USA) Y'Day 14 Oct and today 15 Oct., he stayed in the  NOVOTEL Hotel and with Dr Lalitha and myself made Visakhapatnam sightseeing trip. He visited AU both North and South campuses, Fishing capture and ground area, had 30 minute boat ride in the beach nearing the fishing complex area,  saw an old church on the top of hill, visited the old schools of Lalitha, Vani and Bobji, and most importantly paid visit to the NARASIMHA ASHRAM, residential building of Late Prof. K R Rao D.Sc.(Madras), D.Sc.(London), in Maharanipeta, visited the KGH. Y'Day he visited Bhimili beach (and after checking into the hotel novotel), from 3 pm to 5 pm, and later had been to the Shiva Hill, and enjoyed a train ride of 20 minute, on the top of the hill. Had been to a corner of scenery view and had photos taken. His family members enjoyed the receipt of photos. 
                           Weather at Visakhapatnam on both the days 14 and 15 October was very hot, though night it was somewhat cool. 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
                The author is deeply indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London).  The author also expresses his gratitude to him for the inspiration and constant guidance provided for his research and investigations. A summary of all his disciples and list of publications are listed by the present author and is available on INTERNET. (His life time: 1890 Sept. 9 early morning to 1972 June 20 at 9:10 AM).

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