thiruvananthapuram a kerala startup on small wind turbine steals the show at the ongoing international music and science festival termed paganfest at kochi the innovative model of small wind turbine of the startup avant garde has grabbed several queries at the festival and beyond this first paganfest that began on oct 7 will conclude on friday it is being organised as a tribute to renjith thomas a humble musician artist nature lover and humanist whose organs were donated after he was declared brain dead aptly coined as pagan which means righteous gentle based on the christian theology paganfest is organised for the first time with contributions from 200 fans of renjith spread across the world we plan to organise this pagan fest every year and it is a festival of art music culture science and literature offering a tribute to renjith thomas it will be organised in cities across the country and around the world to spread the message of humaneness through art and science and a culture of clean energy to check environmental pollution and to protect nature science curator at the paganfest mario moideeno told toi he explains that most of us are unaware of the basic chemistry in the kitchen while try to learn the complex chemistry in classrooms that gap needs to be bridged by creating awareness of science as a subject that could be unravelled in a simplified manner he said interestingly there were a good number of motivating speakers on science at the fest dr mathai baker spoke on cognitive psychology dr v p n nampoothiri professor of photonics at the international school of photonics cochin university of science and technology gave an insight into the science of light and on how arab genius ali al hasan had made pioneering contribution in optics and optical illusion youngest robot maker from kerala sevenyear old saarang sumesh spoke on the future of robotics and about robots that he had made with the support of parents at the fest startup avant garde innovations founder arun george had presented about a household wind turbine at an affordable cost of rs 45000 which can generate one kilowatt hour energy per day mario said arun george who had developed the innovation of small wind turbine along with his brother anoop told toi that the paganfest is not a commercial event yet it was inspiring to know that some had approached us to set up small wind mills a group from kozhikode had expressed their willingness to associate with us to set up a wind farm project at kumily in idukki district of the state club mahindra resorts has plans to spruce up its hospitality industry with clean energy facilities at its 44 centres across the country and as part of that had approached us he said beyond that he has received over 1000 mails by now from across the world from more than 50 countries expressing their willingness to collaborate or to set up small wind farms among them include