Paddy straw pellets: How environment ministry’s cost estimates are way off mark

Rs 50 crore not enough to set up new plants for combating stubble burning

Biomass to briquettes

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

Biomass co-firing: Why India’s target for coal power plants is challenging

Biomass pellet suppliers fetch better prices from other industries

'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 …

Green fuel targets for NCR industries: Here are some learning points from Alwar, Bhiwadi

Almost half the industries in Alwar moved to cleaner fuels, a survey by the Centre for Science and Environment shows

NOBEL GESTURE

Weeding out a menace

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

Carbon credit earns profit

To keep afloat biomass plant owners have shifted their gaze to the international carbon credit market

World Environment Day : How trees can purify wastewater and provide economic benefits

The pollutants in wastewater act as nutrients for the trees and plants and also help yield higher fuel wood biomass