Dear gasification enthusiasts, I delivered a keynote address on 23rd February in Tokyo, Japan, before a workshop on the theme "Bottom of the Pyramid". The workshop was arranged by Japan External Trade Organization, and it was meant to tell the Japanese industrialists what they could do for the poor in the third world. My main theme was that the people belonging to the bottom of the pyramid lived in villages, where the opportunities to earn money were extremely limited. The main impediment in the way of even small scale industries being opened in villages was the lack of electricity, and therefore I pleaded that the agricultural waste should be converted into energy. This is already being done all over the world by the cane sugar industry, which uses the bagasse as the source of energy. In the sugar factories, they use the steam turbine technology, which is rather sophisticated, but in the villages they can use the gasification technology with producer gas and biogas being the two alternatives for driving internal combustion engines, which in turn motivate electricity generators. Our own Institute is already providing electricity generated by this method to 35 households in a remote village in India. I am taking this opportunity just to make a wider circle of technicians aware of the benefits that gasification of biomass can bring to the rural poor. Yours A.D.Karve -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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