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Biomass briquettes in India

June 22, 2010

Organic waste holds the key for green energy. Pressed into briquettes it powers local industry.

(Quelle: dpa)
Image: picture-alliance/dpa

Energy type: Biomass
Project goal: Use of biomass in brick kilns as well as for cookers in schools and hospitals
Carbon reduction: 130,000 tons of carbon dioxide over seven years

India produces millions of tons of agricultural waste each year but this material contains much more than just rubbish. The biomass can be used to generate low-carbon energy. That's what one state in northern India has now begun doing. It's producing briquettes of fuel from the biomass and selling it to local brick kilns.

A film by Christoph Kober

Global 3000 # ideasforacoolerworld # Biomasse-Briketts in Indien # 21.06.2010

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