Rocket Science for Rural Development
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Three billion people in the world earn $ 1-2/day. Majority of them live in rural areas with very primitive quality of life. For example in India, which boasts of a very active space and nuclear program, around 60% of rural population have no electricity, use 180 million tons of biomass/year for cooking via primitive wood stoves and have no clean drinking water . Similar is the story in China, Brazil and other “advanced” developing countries. Cooking and lighting-the two basic necessities constitute 75% of total energy consumed by rural population . A user friendly and quality product to satisfy these needs from locally available resources like biomass can go a long way in improving the quality of life for nearly 3/5 of mankind. Recent evidence suggests that indoor air pollution from biomass cooking stoves results in nearly 1.6 million deaths worldwide every year . Only provision of clean and modern cooking technology can avert this tragedy. Rural population aspires to the same quality of life as their urban brethren and thus it is a great challenge for scientists and technologists to develop technologies to improve the quality of life of rural poor. I believe the emerging areas of bio and nanotechnology can provide very effective solutions in these areas.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005