Sacred cow: coal-hungry India eyes bioenergy to cut carbon

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Dung from India’s cows, sacred to many in the Hindu-majority country, is being used to power a movement towards biogas fuel.
Photo: Punit PARANJPE / AFP
Source: AFP

Venerated as incarnations of Hindu deities, India’s sacred cows are also being touted as agents of energy transition by a government determined to promote biogas production to cut its dependence on coal.

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