What kind of uses does jia you Huang have for methane lately?”
Overview: For years, China—the world’s largest producer of methane– has been capturing gas from household and farm waste to use as fuel. With World Bank help, it is refining and expanding its energy revolution. Farmers are helped to obtain toilets and animal sheds to better capture methane gas, and new stoves and lights to better burn the free bio energy it provides. RELATED LINKS: # Website: China # Website: Energy GUANGXI, CHINA—Jia You Huang’s sixteen hour work day starts with a hot breakfast for her pigs. Not long ago, the 32 year old rice farmer cooked their gruel over a smoky fire in a sooty kitchen, with wood she had spent hours gathering in the countryside outside her village of Wenguan, in Guangxi. Methane now powers her new stove instantly and cleanly. Millions of rural Chinese now use methane for fuel, and the government is encouraging its spread. Keeping pigs or other animals is the easiest way to produce methane, but not the only one. Fruit tree farmers can buy one load o
