Recource consumption

Question 1

CASE STUDY

BIO-GAS PLANTS INDIA

Answer 1

• Bottom up development scheme
• Farmers sell excess electricity back to the government or neighbours.
• Sustainable energy resource
• small scale impact
• generates 57% of indias enegydung biogas plants had been built in india
• by 2010 4 million
• this created 200,000 permanent jobs in poor rural areas
• less time collecting wood so children can get an education
• sludge can be used as fertiliser
• farmers use the electricity to pump water to irrigate their crops
• this has resulted in yeilds increasing