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    The document summarizes 4 cases of communities finding renewable energy solutions to their energy problems: 1) A school in Ecuador installed a biodigester to turn sewage into biogas for cooking and eliminate ocean pollution. Students now learn about alternative energy. 2) A village in Kyrgyzstan uses a microhydro system to supplement biogas digesters and provide heating in winter from animal waste. 3) An indigenous group in Brazil installed solar panels to power necessities and access the internet, replacing harmful fossil fuels. 4) A town in Scotland developed a renewable hydrogen system to provide local power, heating and transportation after a radar station closed, reducing fuel costs and emissions.

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    The document summarizes 4 cases of communities finding renewable energy solutions to their energy problems: 1) A school in Ecuador installed a biodigester to turn sewage into biogas for cooking and eliminate ocean pollution. Students now learn about alternative energy. 2) A village in Kyrgyzstan uses a microhydro system to supplement biogas digesters and provide heating in winter from animal waste. 3) An indigenous group in Brazil installed solar panels to power necessities and access the internet, replacing harmful fossil fuels. 4) A town in Scotland developed a renewable hydrogen system to provide local power, heating and transportation after a radar station closed, reducing fuel costs and emissions.

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    The document summarizes 4 cases of communities finding renewable energy solutions to their energy problems: 1) A school in Ecuador installed a biodigester to turn sewage into biogas for cooking and eliminate ocean pollution. Students now learn about alternative energy. 2) A village in Kyrgyzstan uses a microhydro system to supplement biogas digesters and provide heating in winter from animal waste. 3) An indigenous group in Brazil installed solar panels to power necessities and access the internet, replacing harmful fossil fuels. 4) A town in Scotland developed a renewable hydrogen system to provide local power, heating and transportation after a radar station closed, reducing fuel costs and emissions.

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    The document summarizes 4 cases of communities finding renewable energy solutions to their energy problems: 1) A school in Ecuador installed a biodigester to turn sewage into biogas for cooking and eliminate ocean pollution. Students now learn about alternative energy. 2) A village in Kyrgyzstan uses a microhydro system to supplement biogas digesters and provide heating in winter from animal waste. 3) An indigenous group in Brazil installed solar panels to power necessities and access the internet, replacing harmful fossil fuels. 4) A town in Scotland developed a renewable hydrogen system to provide local power, heating and transportation after a radar station closed, reducing fuel costs and emissions.

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    JessicaWatts JacquesJangoux/SilllPictures

    Qqgking with sewage


    Problem:
    Sewage from the 1,200-pupi1 Santa
    Maria del Fiat school and otphanage,
    perched on a cliff overlooking the
    Pacific in Ecuador, flowed directly into
    the ocean.

    Solution:
    A biodigesternow producesbiogasfor
    cooking, and the school's stoves have
    been modified to run on it. The system
    is supplementedby manure from local
    farms during school holidays.

    Benefits:
    . The schoolstovesnow use60 per cent
    less butane.reducinggreenhousegas
    emissions.
    . Sewage no longer gets dumped into
    the Pacific.
    . The studentsat the schoolhavelearned
    about alterrative energy,and have begun
    Guus Geufts/SlillPictures PUREEnergyCentre
    educating the local community about
    biogasandthe environment. heatersin the winter, when temperatures radar station, which employed 114
    are around -6oC. people.hasclosed.

    Sun in the rainforest Solution: Solution:


    Biogas digesters convert the plentiful Localengineering graduateRossGazey
    Problem: supply of animal dung in this agri- conceived of the PURE (Promoting
    Caboclo lndians in the Amazon's cultural area into fuel for cooking, Unst's Renewable Energy) system, a
    Xixuair-Xiparin5 Ecological Reserve lighting and heating. But they don't way to harness the area's powerful
    wanted to replace kerosene,diesel and work when cold, so the village built winds and abundance of rain to split
    wood with a dependable, sustainable a S-kilowattmicrohydro systemon the hydrogen from water using wind-
    sourceof energythat would not damage nearby Urmaral River and attached it generated electriciry(whichis alsoused
    the forest, their most valuable asset. to four biogas units to keep them going to heatand powerbuildings).Hydrogen
    in winter. In warmer weather, the can be stored and used to produce
    Solution: hydroelectricity is used for lighting. cheap, clean electricity for the cornmu-
    The community installedsolar panels nity and to powerzero-emission cars.
    that now power refrigerators for medi- Benefits:
    cines, computersand lights for the local . Twenty-two families have a more Benefits:
    school, a pump to supply freshwater and reliable source of energy, and are less . The community-owned system,which
    a satellite dish that gives accessto the dependenton fossil fuels and wood. is still expanding,now provides2 per
    Internel. . The units produce 15,000cubic metres cent of Unst's power, helping the town
    of fertilizer per year, saving farmers to meet its own needsand lowering its
    Benefits: money on expensivechemicalnutrients. dependenceon expensivefossil fuels.
    . Their new powersupplyis Free,clean, . Drinking water quality has improved . The project has already provided
    healthyand reliable. becausedung is not left to contaminate much-needed localjobs.
    . The Internet enables them to get groundwater. . PURE's hydrogen-poweredcar dem-
    medical information and education,and onstratesthe feasibility ofvehicles that
    opensup economicopportunities. such run on emissions-freefuel.
    as promoting ecotourism and selling Bottlingwind power . One of the obstacles to using hy-
    handicrafts. drogen as an alternative fue1 is that it
    Problem: takes a lot of energyto extract it from
    The 700 people who live on the remote water. That's why PURE - the worid's
    Dungand water island of Unst, the nor-thernmost of first off-grid, renewable hydrogen-
    the Shetland Islands, spend an average generating plant- holdsgreatpotential
    Problem: of 18 to 20 per cent of their income for the future of the fuel, and could
    The people of the Kizil-Charba village, on energy. mostly on heating and even grow into an impoftant hydrogen-
    in northern Kyrgyzstan, have too little transportation. The community also exporting industry, which would greatly
    electricity. yet they rely on elecffic needsjobs now that a Royal Air Force benefit the community's economy.

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