Biomass to briquettes

A new technique to produce efficient and cheap fuel from agricultural waste

'Land'ing in trouble

While plans about alternatives to almost all currently used resources abound, no one is talking about managing one crucial resource: terra firma

Rural power

Fluidised bed technology could help meet all power needs of a village

Rural wisdom

TARA gram, manufactures products using biomass and local raw materials

Switch on biomass

Power crisis spurs market for renewables in rural Bihar

Living energy

Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.

Scientists use solar energy to produce clean hydrogen from biomass

It is a new and viable alternative to high-temperature gasification and other renewable means of hydrogen production

The rural experiment

THE VILLAGE REPUBLIC VHS (PAL) . 50 min .Christopher Rego

Fired by plants

The world's first biomass-based power plant promises a 'cleaner' alternative to coal-fired plants

Fuel for thought

To reduce the level of carbon in the atmosphere, growing and using biomass as an energy substitute for fossil fuels is of greater advantage than …

White uprising

How fungi stopped coal formation

Faulty policies

"We have completely ignored our biomass sector"

A M GOKHALE, secretary. Union Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources, in conversation with KUSHAL P S YADAV

Beating about the bush

Many important issues were hardly touched upon at the recently concluded conference on bioresources

Ways of lfie in rural and urban India

The great energy divide

MONEYMAKERS

Local resources can meet India's rural needs

The use of kerosene for lighting and biomass for cooking is predominant throughout rural India. And since provision of grid electricity to rural …

NOBEL GESTURE

Weeding out a menace

Kerala plans to use water hyacinth to manufacture an important industrial enzyme

Chipko's triumphs extend beyond the forest

A look at the achievements and failures of a movement that began spontaneously in the Garhwal region two decades ago to protect trees from human …

'Bioenergy is being taken quite seriously'

Gerald Leach is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in London. He has written extensively on rural energy …

Turning an old leaf

Power from plants Walt Patterson Publisher: Royal Institute of International Affairs Price: Not stated

Promoting integrated village planning

Self-sustaining rural communities could be India's answer to her disrupted ecosystem.

Within the enemy

Humankind faces the most prolonged and worst exposure to pollution within the four walls of its homes - indoors - where biomass combustion spells …