Akshay
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Akshay
@aksh_yay
Full time real-estate professional | Part time CCO (Chief Criticizing Officer) | @NYUStern alumnus | Wannabe quant | If tweets R curt, U must be deserving them!
Mumbai, India Katılım Mart 2009
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@aparanjape Because new projects are where maximum kickbacks are to be made!
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As I had posted a few days back... our civic bodies are often good at 'launching' new projects... and quite bad at maintaining them!
Here's a classic example from Pune.
Amit Paranjape@aparanjape
"A massive rusting iron structure opposite Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Garden on Pune’s iconic J.M. Road has once again brought the Pune Municipal Corporation’s failed mechanised parking project under sharp public scrutiny." punemirror.com/city/pmc-faile… "The PMC had launched the mechanised parking project in 2007 with much fanfare as a futuristic solution to the city’s growing parking crisis." "Over the past two decades, the parking system has reportedly remained shut for more than half of its operational life."
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This is absolutely insane if true!!
Owen Lewis@is_OwenLewis
Okay folks, this qualifies as BREAKING NEWS! Harold “Sonny” White, the warp drive pioneer behind NASA’s EagleWorks Lab, just stepped out of stealth with Casimir Inc. to unveil MicroSPARC: the first battery free chip to harvest continuous electrical power straight from the quantum vacuum via the Casimir force. The 5 mm × 5 mm device uses millions of custom microscale Casimir cavities fabricated on a substrate. Inside each cavity, two fixed conductive walls create a region of negative vacuum pressure (the well known Casimir effect). Stationary micropillars anchored in the middle act as antennas. Electrons from the cavity walls then quantum tunnel to the pillars because the interior is a lower energy “quieter” zone — and the probability of tunneling back is orders of magnitude lower. This one way “quantum ratchet” flow generates a measurable DC current with no external power source or moving parts. Prototypes already fabricated at university nanofab facilities (Texas A&M AggieFab, MIT.nano) have been tested in RF-shielded, low noise chambers for weeks. The team reports outputs ranging from millivolts to volts at picoamp to microamp levels using precision electrometers and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. Target performance for the first commercial chip: ~1.5 V at 25 µA (≈40 µW continuous). Stacking and scaling could reach milliwatts or even watts per device. Initial applications are ultra low power: always on IoT sensors, wearables, and medical implants. Longer term roadmap includes trickle charging phones, powering small electronics, and eventually grid independent homes or EVs. Commercialization is targeted for 2028, starting at ~$100/W before dropping toward $10/W. White ties the work directly to his earlier theoretical paper on emergent quantization from a dynamic vacuum and sees it as a practical power source for the deep-space missions he’s long championed. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and independent scientists have so far declined public comment. But if the engineering scales as hoped, MicroSPARC would represent a genuine paradigm shift: continuous, maintenance free power drawn from the fabric of spacetime itself. A bold leap from warp-drive theory into real hardware. Progress (and vacuum-powered chips) marches on. Photo: MicroSPARC | Casimir Inc. Source: thedebrief.org/free-energy-fr…
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@vipulshah729 @Agnihotriinc It’s a design feature to control the crowds - only the ones who truly deserve can reach the valley!!
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Sir please do something about the roads of Himachal Pradesh. Horrible conditions. Almost no roads in Tirthan valley. Totally washed off and so risky to drive. How do you expect tourists to visit Himachal. It takes 2 hours to cover 15-20 kms and totally back breaking roads @GoHimachal_ @CMOFFICEHP fail to understand if your Government cares about the livelihood and tourism. Roads are in these conditions past several months. @INCHimachal @RahulGandhi @AICCMedia
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@Ashez06 @venkat_fin9 Toll is only 10% of total road related tax collected. Even if this does to 0 it’s still 4.5 lakh crore vs 1.7 lakh crore.
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@venkat_fin9 This figure will reduce by a lot due to annual pass FY late 2025 and 2026.
Why are we still debating for tolls when the cheapest solution is already provided by the government?
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India collected ₹54,000 crore in road tolls in FY2024
also collected ₹3.6 lakh crore in fuel taxes
also collected ₹1.7 lakh crore in GST on vehicles
Total road-related taxes : ~₹5 lakh crore/year
Total NHAI road budget : ₹1.7 lakh crore
You paid for the road 3 times over.
Then paid again at the toll booth.
where did the other ₹3.3 lakh crore go?
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@vipulshah729 @rajvishah30 A bullet train service too - soon to be announced. They will deliver hot and extra fresh chips from Sanand/ Dholera to Bangalore apple phone plants!
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@rajvishah30 Train service is good between Ahmedbabd and Bengaluru 🤓
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@vipulshah729 @YTKDIndia Rent seeking (aka blood sucking) at its best. They should pay us back when property is not rented if they want to be our partners.
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@aksh_yay @YTKDIndia Twice if the tenant is not a Company, if a Company, it is 3 times.
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🚨 Meet Gwalior Mayor Shobha Sikarwar.
She heads the Gwalior Municipal Corporation.
Our team visited the city to check the ground reality of the work done under her leadership.
What we found was Shocking.
An Explosive Thread🧵
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Good thing they didn’t include the background sound tracks with sirens and blasts! We are already a laughing stock don’t know what would happen if the full picture was presented with the idiot, incompetent, uninformed, panelist shouting at each other!
Manisha Pande@MnshaP
world discovers indian news can be a nice reaction template
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@ihtesham2005 Have been using it for 3+ years - it’s absolutely amazing!!
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Say goodbye to Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive subscriptions.
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@vipulshah729 @PaschimGujVCL @ikaushikvekaria Ha ha ha. Au contraire, They will get promoted for saving cheap domestic electricity at peak load and distribute to industry at higher rate!!
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@PaschimGujVCL @ikaushikvekaria Fail to understand the management & efficiency of your department. Frequent power shut down in various areas of Bhavnagar by PGVCL for O&M. In fact twice a month in same areas. Severe harassment to people in this hot summer 40-45 degree temperature. Need some head rolling . @Bhupendrapbjp @CMOGuj @sanghaviharsh @jitu_vaghani
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@Fintech03 It’s time to announce a similar scheme for old clunky air conditioners! They are massive guzzlers of power and given the heat profile will become more and more consuming.
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The West built its power grids on Copper. But India is Copper-Poor & Aluminium-Rich. Indian scientists perfected the AL-59 Aluminium Alloy conductors, a material that carries up to 30% more power than traditional cables while sagging far less under extreme heat & load.
While the West battles decades-old copper infra, India quietly built the world’s most advanced 800 kV Ultra High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) corridors, engineering marvels that move massive power across 1000s of KMs with unmatched efficiency.
Also, through the UJALA scheme, India distributed 36.8 crore+ (368M) LED bulbs. This single initiative slashed peak electricity demand by ~9500 MW & saved 48 billion units of electricity every yr. 9500 MW is equivalent to the output of ~20-25 large coal-fired power plants/the entire generation capacity of several states... achieved w/o burning a single extra tonne of coal.
Data Source: @indianmatrix
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@amazonIN if my house is on the first floor how can your delivery associate just leave the delivery out in the open on the ground floor and respond rudely when requesting first floor delivery? And when I insisted on the delivery on first floor they said they will return the product. This is not the experience that was expected from Amazon. @amazon
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@bigbasket_com you meant to say you discontinued operations, because it was available till about 2 weeks ago!!
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@bigbasket_com seems like you have stopped operations in #Bhavnagar. Please confirm.
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