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Weird and Wonderful: Many uses of Cow Dung and its potential as a power source.
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What comes to mind when you think of cow dung? Is it a garden filled with manure or a village hut with walls neatly smeared with it? Cow dung possesses a range of fascinating features. It serves as an effective fertiliser, an insulator for rural homes when applied to floors and walls, and holds significance in religious rituals too. Recently, its potential as a power source has been recognised through anaerobic digestion, where it is converted into biogas. This biogas can be utilised for cooking, heating, and even generating electricity. How weird and wonderful right? Joining me to explain how this process works. how African countries, particularly in the context of addressing load shedding, can harness this source of power, is Prof Vincent Okudoh, Associate Professor in Biotechnology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
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Manage episode 430581169 series 2866084
What comes to mind when you think of cow dung? Is it a garden filled with manure or a village hut with walls neatly smeared with it? Cow dung possesses a range of fascinating features. It serves as an effective fertiliser, an insulator for rural homes when applied to floors and walls, and holds significance in religious rituals too. Recently, its potential as a power source has been recognised through anaerobic digestion, where it is converted into biogas. This biogas can be utilised for cooking, heating, and even generating electricity. How weird and wonderful right? Joining me to explain how this process works. how African countries, particularly in the context of addressing load shedding, can harness this source of power, is Prof Vincent Okudoh, Associate Professor in Biotechnology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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