How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint In India

By Author: Vivaan Pathak
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While Elon Musk’s Tesla has taken over the electric car sector in various North American and European Countries, there’s still a long time left before we get them in Indian markets. This is cause for extreme concern since India has a huge population of car owners who drive almost everywhere, they go. This reckless behavior has sped up global warming. In fact, certain parts of Uttarakhand such as Dehradun which is literally next to a hill station have experienced higher temperatures in the past two years than ever before. The only way to stop this is to work on finding sustainable energy sources in India which are allowed by our government. The bio-CNG India movement has helped by using BioCNG in many auto-rickshaws, and has helped significantly reduce emission levels. Let’s take a closer look at the benefits of using this upgraded biogas.

Eco-Friendly
This should be pretty obvious. Biogas is a truly sustainable source of energy i.e. it is renewable and doesn’t cause pollution. The entire biogas production process is free ...
... of combustion, and it reduces the amount of methane that goes into the atmosphere, thereby significantly reducing the greenhouse effect and combating global warming.

Reduces hydro-terra pollution
With most landfills overflowing, a source of energy that utilizes garbage is just what we need. Even some regions of Delhi have hills of trash that we can’t dump anywhere else. Now, for biogas production, we can use all that trash and convert it into energy. This will not only reduce land pollution but also water pollution as the liquids left by these heaps of trash won’t flow into water bodies such as underground water.

Beneficial By-Products
The word by-product has a pretty bad reputation in pop culture. It gives the impression that something is a negative side effect of the desired effect. In the case of biogas, the by-product is almost as good as the main product. This is because the generation of biogas from trash, leaves behind an organic fertilizer. This fertilizer can help the plant grow faster and combat disease growth.

Improves Economy
The generation of biogas helps create new jobs and helps the nation’s economy get self-sustaining. It is really cheap to setup the generation of biogas and it can provide households with fuel for their vehicles as well as for cooking. In this way, the biogas generation plant ends up paying for itself and provides a winning argument for bio-CNG India.

In conclusion, even though we don’t have electric cars in India, we still are on our way to developing a sustainable energy source that will greatly reduce our carbon footprints.