The India Times reported that alternative energy has taken a bite at India’s national power grid by contributing a healthy 9100 mw of energy last year. Most of the energy came from wind farms which gave 6,070 mw of power. Biomass plants and hydro plants which came on line in 2006 also gave their share.
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E.ON UK has submitted their proposal to replace the existing 485 MW coal fired power plant in Kingsnorth UK with a cleaner burning plant with 2 800MW Power Generating Boilers. What is interesting to note about this power plant is that it will be able to run on human, plant and animal waste. I am assuming that this is biogas that the report is talking about. Meaning that it will run from the methane generated by the decomposition of waste.

All I can say is… for 1.6 GigaWatts of Power… that’s a whole lot of Sh*t…
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