---------- ÊÊSERVICES Ê ---------- Ê Express Travel ---------- Ê The 99 Store - Just for you !! ---------- Ê Astrology By Bejan Daruwalla ---------- Ê Matrimonials ---------- ÊÊGROUP SITES Ê ---------- Ê Expressindia ---------- Ê The Indian Express ---------- Ê The Financial Express ---------- Ê Latest News ---------- Ê Screen ---------- Ê Kashmir Live ---------- Ê Express Cricket ---------- Ê Loksatta ---------- Ê Lokprabha ---------- Ê North American Edition [Print] ---------- ÊÊCOLUMNISTS Ê ---------- Ê The Indian Express ---------- Ê The Financial Express ---------- ÊSUBSCRIPTIONS Ê ---------- Ê Free Newsletter ---------- Ê Wireless Express ---------- ÊÊSYNDICATIONS Ê ---------- Ê ---------- RSS Feeds ---------- Ê Home> Delhi> Page One Tuesday , August 03, 2004 Ê ---------- News Ê|Ê Sportsline ---------- Ê PAGE ONE ---------- Ê NEWSLINE ANCHOR DCE TEACHES HOW TO MAKE THE ALTERNATE FUEL AT HOME, EARN A LIVELIHOOD Oriya women discover biodiesel in backyard Anubhuti Vishnoi New Delhi, August 2: Some women from rural Orissa today discovered that back home they had a treasure in their backyards. Madhabi Das, a resident of Matimandap Sahi village in Puri district, said she had never imagined that the seeds of the Karanj tree growing around her house could fetch her a regular monthly income of over Rs 5,000. She was attending a biodiesel workshop at Delhi College of Engineering in Rohini today. To her surprise, she was told she could extract the fuel from the ordinary looking seeds that keep falling into her courtyard. ---------- ---------- Madhavi is one of the 10 women from self-help groups of the state who are attending the three-day workshop, sponsored by the Petroleum Conservation Research Association. ÎÎWe come from a state where women have seen the worst face of poverty. Little did we know that a treasure was waiting around us to be discovered. We have been told that the Karanj seeds which we sell at Rs 4 per kilogram back in our village is sold for as much as Rs 180 in packets abroad,ââ said a beaming Laxmi Senapati from Kundura in Koraput district. Asst Professor Naveen Kumar, biodiesel co-ordinator at the college, said: ÎÎWe have been working on the project for over four years. Biodiesel is a domestic, renewable fuel derived from vegetable oils or animal fats. It can be used in any concentration with petroleum based-diesel fuel in existing diesel engines with little or no modification. The fact that it is non-toxic and carbon neutral makes it a non-polluting and cheap alternative.ââ While Karanj or Pongamia Pinnata is ideal for Orissa because it grows all over the state, Jatropha Curcas (Ratanjot), Calophyllum Inophyllum (Nagchampa), Hevea Brasiliensis (Rubber seeds), Caltropis Gigantia (Ark) and Orizya Sativa (Rice bran oil) can also be tapped. It is quite easy to process biodiesel at home, using the biodiesel reactor developed by DCE. The women will be taught to use the reactor and take them home at highly subsidised rates. ÎÎWe own about 10-15 acres of land but the yield is very poor. I have decided to plant Karanj and Jatropha and will also buy a reactor from here. In fact, I also plan to run our tubewells and tractors on biodiesel,ââ said an excited Ranobala Sahoo from Khurda district. http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=93859 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
