[Gasification] energy for villages

[Anand Karve]

Dear gasification enthusiasts,
I delivered a keynote address on 23rd February in Tokyo, Japan, before a
workshop on the theme "Bottom of the Pyramid". The workshop was arranged by
Japan External Trade Organization, and it was meant to tell the
Japanese industrialists what they could do for the poor in the third world.
My main theme was that the people belonging to the bottom of the pyramid
lived in villages, where the opportunities to earn money were extremely
limited. The main impediment in the way of even small scale industries
being opened in villages was the lack of electricity, and therefore I
pleaded that the agricultural waste should be converted into energy. This
is already being done all over the world by the cane sugar industry, which
uses the bagasse as the source of energy. In the sugar factories, they use
the steam turbine technology, which is rather sophisticated, but in the
villages they can use the gasification technology with producer gas and
biogas being the two alternatives for driving internal combustion engines,
which in turn motivate electricity generators. Our own Institute is already
providing electricity generated by this method to 35 households in a remote
village in India.
I am taking this opportunity just to make a wider circle of technicians
aware of the benefits that gasification of biomass can bring to the rural
poor.
Yours
A.D.Karve
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Dr. A.D. Karve
Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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