India is tapping a new energy source that promises to help clean up smog-choked cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: truckloads of bovine manure. Cows are venerated as sacred creatures by the country's Hindu majority. They also have pride of place in rural communities, where they are still regularly used as draught animals. Rural
India is tapping a new energy source that promises to help clean up smog-choked cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: truckloads of bovine manure.
Cows are venerated as sacred creatures by the country’s Hindu majority. They also have pride of place in India’s rural communities, where they are still regularly used as draught animals.
Rural households have long burned sun-dried cattle droppings to heat stoves, a practice that continues despite government efforts to phase it out with subsidized gas cylinders.
Villages on the outskirts of the central Indian city of Indore are now
India is tapping a new energy source that promises to help clean up smog-choked cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: truckloads of bovine manure.
In northern India, a biomass power plant is transforming manure and cow dung into energy, as part of a pilot project that aims to help reduce air pollution while benefiting…