Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
http://www.arti-india.org/

Commercialisation of Improved Biomass Fuels and Cooking Devices in India: Scale Up PROJECT
http://www.arti-india.org/content/view/44/42/

ARTI Biogas Plant: A compact digester for producing biogas from food waste
http://www.arti-india.org/content/view/45/40/

Compact Biogas Plant - details
http://www.arti-india.org/content/view/46/43/

"Ethanol can replace petrol in motor vehicles
and that would end the production of greenhouse
gasses from all the cars in the world. We must
make it happen now. Ethanol is actually a cheaper
fuel when oil prices go over $45.00 a barrel.
Virtually all motor vehicles other than those
in Brazil, today run on either petrol, diesel or
LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). And they are all
fossil fuels. To stop Global Warming these fuels
have to be replaced. What is amazing is just how
incredible easy and practical it is to do so."

"Now in Brazil, and in any other efficient sugar
producing country, from a hectare of sugar cane
they can produce 5,500 litres of ethanol per year,
that's 35 barrels of motor fuel. On a per acre basis,
that's 14 barrels or 600 US gallons.
The total world's oil consumption is four billion
tons per year. That's two thirds of a ton of oil per
head of population. It is the equivalent of one car
for every four and a half people on the planet.
There is actually only about half that number of
transport vehicles in the world. The rest of the oil
is used for heating, petrochemical production etc.
What does this all mean? As an exercise, let's
say we drive 16,000 miles per year and get 20
miles to the US gallons, (26,000 kilometres at 12
litres per 100 k). That's about three tons of fuel
per year. Then to grow the ethanol or biodiesel
we would need to allocate two thirds of a hectare,
that's under one and a half acres per motor vehicle
That's 0.13 ha or 0.33 acres per person. That
would require an area of sugar cane farms 2,750
kilometres square or 1,700 miles square. That's
about the size of the Amazon basin and we will
have cancelled our need for petroleum derived
transport fuel."

Well, look, I was a kid in the 1970s. I know how much waste food comes from a poor household, and the answer is: Damn near None. I mean, we threw Nothing away! Spoiled milk? It never got a chance to spoil! Same for all the other food goodies, you gotta be kidding me, we threw like NOTHING out, and we still weren't as poor as these Indians. The idea that Indians, or us in a few decades, are going to have enough to throw away as presetn-day middle-class Americans is just silly. Look up the occasional pieces written by people who've gone to live in India or come from India to here - nothing is wasted there and present-day Americans' waste is obscene.

That article sounds like a come-on for investment someone's set up, kinda like the "free energy for life" hoax that's gone around the US, you send 'em a buncha money and they sell you their free-energy device and the "rights" to install 'em around your 'hood....