Around the world, 3.2 billion people lack access to modern methods of heating. While cooking over open fires is damaging to health and to the environment, biogas provides a viable, sustainable alternative.
Many countries in the world lack the infrastructure needed to provide populations in remote regions with heat and light. For half the world's population, meals are cooked on an open fire fueled by wood, coal, dung, and other smoke-producing combustibles. This not only adversely affects the health of rural populations, it also consumes large amounts of fuel and releases high levels of carbon dioxide.
Now, however, there is an alternative.
These days, biogas plants are providing a mainstream renewable energy solution in rural Nepal, allowing people to produce methane by fermenting human and animal waste. Biogas units provide a cleaner and safer source of energy, enabling rural families to produce their own electricity, heat, and fertilizer.
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