BANGALORE, INDIA, June 1, 2004: Prof. U Shrinivasa’s SuTRA is demonstrating the power and simplicity of straight vegetable fuel oils, according to this report at GoodNewsIndia.
In 2001 when GoodNewsIndia reported on the work of Prof. Udipi Shrinivasa and his organization SuTRA, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he had already proven the idea of using straight vegetable oils [SVO] as diesel engine fuels. He had demonstrated over a 40 square kilometer area that SVO can deliver power to homes and farms. How was this promise going to be taken to an India out there, we had wondered. The professor however, had no doubts: “It will happen, sir,” he had said softly. He is a man who knows his India. Two years on, he is proving right.
The report describes how he sought to bring electricity to a remote village. Two off-the-shelf gensets of 7.5 kva each were installed in a hut in Chalbardi village. The hamlet was wired. Karanji oil engines powered a decorticator and an oil mill (that is, the village produced its own biodiesel). And in June, 2001, right in the middle of a forest, with no pylons, no pollution, no down-time and no bills to pay, darkness made way to light. People whooped in joy. Children raced round and round. And were delightedly, sternly told that it was time for them to sit down and spend some time learning. This self sustaining miracle cost just $10,000.
Read the rest of the uplifting report at “source” above.
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