Speaking at an Ananta Centre function, Brazilian ambassador to India, Andre Aranha Correa do Lago referred to a new development, the manufacture of flexicars– a new kind of hybrid– he said they can use both green fuels like ethanol and also, run on electricity. India has already imported a few from Brazil where they are manufactured to test them out.
New Delhi: A solution to the burning of stubble in the Punjab and Haryana that causes high levels of air pollution all over north India could be the manufacture of ethanol, the Brazilian ambassador to India, Andre Aranha Correa do Lago, said today.
“Stubble burning is the reason for bad air. Once ethanol was being made with sugarcane. Now, any agricultural waste can be used,” he said. The Brazilian ambassador said that another way of reducing air pollution, and this time as a result of the burning of coal in the thermal power plants was to use biomass instead. The biomass pellets, he said, could easily be used as feedstock.
The obvious choice, he said, was not to clear tropical forests to plant crops to make biofuels as Indonesia, for example, did for a while, but to use stubble to make ethanol. One possibility was to turn green hydrogen, which is potentially the next big thing in the fight to counter climate change, into ethanol. That would ensure that there’d be fewer worries about the storage of hydrogen, which can be dangerous.
Speaking at an Ananta Centre function, do Lago referred to a new development, the manufacture of flexicars– a new kind of hybrid– he said they can use both green fuels like ethanol and also, run on electricity. India has already imported a few from Brazil where they are manufactured to test them out.
India has already begun blending ethanol with petroleum, something Brazil has been doing for years. This has led to considerable savings in the import of petroleum. Meanwhile, the use of ethanol for ships and even aircraft are being looked into.
Source : Times Now
