{"id":590314,"date":"2023-07-11T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=590314"},"modified":"2023-07-11T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T08:22:10","slug":"energy-consumption-lost-brick-by-brick-iit-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/energy-consumption-lost-brick-by-brick-iit-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy consumption lost brick by brick: IIT study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A new study by researchers from several Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), including Hyderabad, and other organisations has revealed energy consumption discrepancies in the Indian brick industry. They have analysed energy conservation in brick production. Telangana produces 3% and Andhra Pradesh 4% of India\u2019s bricks. The study, \u2018Reconciliation of Energy Use Disparities in Brick Production in India\u2019, has been published in \u2018Nature\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the significance of energy conservation in achieving carbon neutrality in the building sector, the study shows that current energy consumption estimates in the brick industry were vastly underestimated, comparable to that of steel and cement industries. Researchers, including Azharuddin Hashmi and Asif Qureshi from IIT-H,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A new study by researchers from several Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), including Hyderabad, and other organisations has revealed energy consumption discrepancies in the Indian brick industry. They have analysed energy conservation in brick production. Telangana produces 3% and Andhra Pradesh 4% of India\u2019s bricks. The study, \u2018Reconciliation of Energy Use Disparities in Brick Production in India\u2019, has been published in \u2018Nature\u2019. Highlighting the significance of energy conservation in achieving carbon neutrality in the building sector, the study shows that current energy consumption estimates in the brick industry were vastly underestimated, comparable to that of steel and cement industries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}