THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keeping its word on reducing the waste heaps at Vilappilsala treatment plant, the Corporation has decided to set up biogas plants in major markets in the city. The step is as part of the decentralisation of waste treatment, which is one of the main focus areas of the final-year programmes envisaged by the present Council.

Mumbai Cowdung and kitchen wastes will turn into cooking gas everyday at the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Hospital, which has installed a biogas plant on its Lower Parel premises.

The organic conversion will involve no extra energy or electricity. What

East Africa should tap its large cogeneration potential, burning waste from its sugar and tea output to cut reliance on hydro power, which is increasingly hit by drought, an energy analyst said on Wednesday.

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A bacterium can generate electricity from mud and waste fuel cells which use microorganisms to convert chemical energy to electrical energy are seen as one of the future sources of clean power. But the capacity of such cells to generate electricity is very low. Researchers knew of microbes that can extract electricity from mud and wastewater. They have now found a way by which

Hundreds of thousands of tons of watermelons are tossed every year because they aren't good enough for market. A new study finds that the juice from these watermelons could easily be used to create the biofuel ethanol and other helpful products.

Coimbatore, Aug. 28 The Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) is in talks with the sago units in the Namakkal and Rasipuram belt for helping them install biogas plants, TEDA Chairman and Managing Director, Mr R. C. Gandhi, said.

It's an odd week for fuel sources. On the heels of a Mountain Dew powered engine, UK supermarket Tesco is getting flack for turning meat into energy-yah, you read that right.

The food chain is burning 5,000 tons of inedible meat for fuel. The biomass processing is being handled by the Cheshire-based PDM Group. The meat-energy is then used to power UK homes via the National Grid.

First-ever state of-the-art wastage to energy power plant will be set up at Rachna industrial park on Lahore Sheikhupura Road. The park will have its own 5 to 25 megawatt power plant, which would produce energy from waste for the industries.

Power would be generated from 'bhusa (paddy/wheat chipping)' and corn stems in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh. A private company is setting up a 7.5 MW biogas power plant at Gudar village in Badwara tahsil in Katni district. Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board has already entered into an agreement to purchase electricity with the company, according to official information.