Saturday, 12 July 2003

Bio-diesel Energy Alternative. The need for alternative energy sources is crucial for rural areas. Good News India has a story on how "natural diesel alternatives are beginning to deliver". In 2001 when GoodNewsIndia reported on the work of Prof. Udipi Shrinivasa and his organisation SuTRA, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he had already proven the idea of using straight vegetable oils [SVO] as diesel engine fuels. He had demonstrated over a 40 square kilometer area that SVO can deliver power to homes and farms. How was this promise going to be taken to an India out there, we had wondered. The Professor however, had no doubts: "It will happen, Sir," he had said softly. He is a man who knows his India. Two years on, he is proving right. The Professor's vision is broad: "There is room for everyone in this new economy. Small groups running nurseries, forest folk gathering seeds, small land holders planting for SVO, big corporations farming hundreds of acres, the state developing wastelands, organic farmers using the oil cake as manure, national security strategists factoring SVO in, activists into greening of India and watchdogs battling pollution. All these can come in and find win-win solutions. The market is virtually infinite. After all our oil import bill is $ 6 billion a year-- and growing." [Source; E M E R G I C . o r g] 6:29:47 PM     School turns to wind power. A school hopes to reduce its electricity bills by harnessing energy from a wind turbine. [Source: BBC News | UK News | Education | World Edition] 6:20:12 PM

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