During the new Australian prime minister’s first state visit to Indonesia in early June, Anthony Albanese spent a morning planting trees and riding a bamboo bicycle with Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Pictures of the two politicians taking a spin around the Bogor Presidential Palace lit up social media. Indonesian environmentalists felt proud of the “bamboo […]
In a world that is increasingly obsessed with reducing emissions, biomass as a source of energy is growing in popularity, but just how green is this form of energy?
Bamboo is one of the most productive and fastest growing plants on the planet.
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Its fuel characteristics, high productivity, short rotation and rapid growth makes bamboo even much more valuable: the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR) claims that a single bamboo pole is capable of providing enough power for a rural household for an entire month. Because of its energy yields and credibility as a viable source of bioenergy, bamboo power has been used extensively in India, China and Brazil.
Researchers from RMIT University and Center for International Forestry Research have partnered with Clean Power Indonesia (CPI) due to their increased curiosity into how bamboo works as a biofuel and how it may be more sustainable than traditional wood. Bamboo has great fuel characteristics: high heat values, volatile contents, lower ash and moisture content. Bamboo has proved itself as a great alternative to wood; removing bamboo normally doesn’t damage the environment nor
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By Harry Jacques, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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SALIGUMA, Indonesia, April 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C utting through the glassy water of a mangrove-fringed inlet on the east coast of Indonesia’s Siberut island, Mateus Sabojiat and Anjelina Sadodolu arrived home by canoe to Saliguma village.
Back in their house, Sadodolu lit a wood fire to boil water before her husband left for work at the local government office.
“The electric power is on only when it is time to sleep,” said Sadodolu.
The couple in their forties, who have six children, live just a few hundred metres from Indonesia’s first power plant designed to be fuelled by bamboo, one of three such facilities built to bring electricity to isolated villages in Siberut.