How Indian Machine Can Makes Biogas From Any Organic Substance

We are well into the new year and have yet to bless the 2008 with a story from our poop-tech rubric. So, without further ado, here is another report documenting excrement-to-energy success.

In the last general elections, the National Democratic Alliance of the country used ‘India Shining’ as the caption to try and win the general elections in 2004 and basically their campaign was flushed down the drain. Maybe ‘India Pooping’ will serve the nation to shine a lot better than all those political decisions that are almost always useless. When it comes to leading the world in terms of producing fuel from poop, India leads the way. Basically the nation is now trying to use a tank that will convert human waste in to energy.

According to EcoGeek, an Indian plastics company called Sintex created a simple digester that can "take any organic material, including agricultural waste, kitchen scraps, or cow dung, and convert it to methane", which is then moved to a storage container via small tube. From there it can be used as natural gas for everything from cocking, to boiling water and even heating your home.
In fact, one of the nation’s small villages is already using this method to power their streetlights.

The digester costs only $425 and, according to Sintex, pays for itself in less than 2 years. In fact, the device has proved so efficient, that Indian government decided to subsidize 1/3 of the cost of the units. So the basic message is pretty simple, loud and clear. It is a lot better and a lot easier to trust poop to develop your village than your elected leader. Poop is a way better way to achieve shining India than political nonsense.