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Nano. Bio. Space. Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. iFive: Qualcomm's Wi-Fi Push, Samsung's Super-Fast Memory, Goldman Sachs-Facebook, Kinect Sells 8 Million, GM's Powermats. An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It. "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...
"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. "My political ideal is democracy. Office of Science and Technology Policy. Innovative India water plant opens in Madras. 30 July 2010Last updated at 16:26 By Swaminathan Natarajan BBC Tamil The plant could provide a template for solving India's water problems A desalination plant which begins operating in Madras on Saturday will provide some of the cheapest drinking water in India, backers say.
They say that the plant will supply 1,000 litres of drinking water for just over $1 and could well be a "template" for other coastal Indian cities. The company behind the plant says that it is the biggest in South Asia. It will provide 100 million litres of water a day to the city by filtering sea water under high pressure. In comparison, the government-run water board supplies about 650 million litres of water to the city's seven million residents.
Competitively priced "We are using the advanced reverse osmosis technology. India's monsoon is notoriously erratic "It can be competitive even when compared to supplying water from natural sources like lakes. The plant will process 237 million litres of sea water per day.