When burning gas is good for the planet

Rural families can slash their energy costs, improve their health and help preserve local forests by harvesting natural gas from rotting manure, researchers argue.

They say the use of biogas plants, which store the decomposing manure and capture the natural gas it releases, could improve rural farmers’ livelihoods, while protecting the environment.

… Many families in these rural Indian areas own several cows and buffalo, supplying them with a few dozen kilos of manure a day