Five-feet long, two-feet wide and about three feet in height, the biogas machine designed and developed by the Bangalore-based Scalene Cybernetics Limited looks a trifle unwieldy for the kitchen in an average flat.

The machine, though, has the potential of revolutionising the fuel use in urban households by ridding them of the ubiquitous LPG cylinders.

Sri Lanka Minister of Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka says that the rates the Sri Lanka Electricity Board purchases electricity generated from solid waste has been increased.

The Minister said the measure was taken to encourage investors in generating electricity through solid waste.

Accordingly, the purchasing price for a unit of electricity generated from solid waste has been increased

KOCHI: As the waste menace is continuing to be a major headache for residents and authorities, the newly formed Thrikkakara Municipality is planning to initiate steps to tackle the issue.

Mule dung menace to become energy source
JAMMU, Feb 10: Though it remained a menace for decades together yet several tonnes of mule dung being littered every day on 13 kilometers track of holy cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi, is shortly going to become a source of energy generation for the Shrine Board as Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy funded mule dung based bio-gas plant is comi

DISPOSING of household rubbish is not, at first glance, a task that looks amenable to high-tech solutions. But Hilburn Hillestad of Geoplasma, a firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, begs to differ. Burying trash