India is gearing up to use cow dung to power vehicles in a move officials say will cut emissions, create rural jobs, and turn a waste problem into an energy source.
The plan, launched in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, is to process around 5.4 million kg of dung from stray cattle each day into compressed biogas (CBG). Experts estimate methane from a single cow’s annual dung output can match the energy of about 225 litres of petrol, enough to run a small car for roughly 5,500km once purified.
