National Technology Day 2023: Changing climate, fueling opportunities

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Key Points

Currently the supply of raw material for ethanol production comes from sugar factories...

Carbon emissions caused by the enormous use of fossil fuels is at the root of this impending peril.However, camouflaged in this challenge is an opportunity for countries like India in the form of alternative fuel produced from bio-mass...

India presented Panchamrut, a five-Point action plan that revolves around harnessing alternative fuel sources in the country up to 500 giga watts by 2030, fulfilling 50% of fuel requirement through sustainable resources, reducing carbon emissions by 1 bn tons by 2030, reducing the carbon intensity by 45% and achieving net zero target by 2070...

Most importantly, all these alternate fuels shall use farm waste and decayed bio-mass as raw material..

As for bio-fuel, India, a country rich in raw material only needs to harness the treasure with the collective intelligence and talent of our scientific as well as entrepreneurial fraternity, duly supported by the policy makers..

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