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India: Bamboo Dust & Rice Husk & Solar Power
Dust and Husk Power
www.telegraphindia.com, 09 May 2007
Bamboo dust, rice husk and the sun will soon make the bulb glow in Puthimari village in the Darrang district of Assam, India.
The country’s first rural electrification program using solar energy
was launched in Puthimari village recently. The program is being
implemented as part of the central government's resolve to ensure
electrification in all remote villages by 2009.
Assam
has identified 2,139 such villages, which are not accessible from the
existing conventional grid. Of them, 1,084 are located in the plains
and 1,055 are located in Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills.
The project will use bamboo
dust and rice husk as the raw material to generate power. The Nagaon
Paper Mill of the Hindustan Paper Corporation at Jagiroad has been
asked to supply bamboo dust, while rice husk is available in abundance
in and around the project site.
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