Brick 10 - Song Shu Biogas Project
The key to the success of this project is the construction of 100 small-scale and low-cost waste digesters which would be distributed to 100 families who signed up for the project. The price of building a low-cost waste digester is ¥1,700.00 ( €169.00 or ₤134.00 or $249.00). The families have agreed to shoulder ¥700.00 of the cost. Each digester will then need ¥1,000.00 ( €99.00 or ₤79.00 or $146.00).
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Leaving Coal Behind
Song Shu, a small village in Gansu Province, lives off from farming and livestock raising. The families of Song Shu are highly dependent on coal for cooking, lighting and heating. The cost usually falls around ¥1 per piece and an average rural family usually uses up to about 3-6 coal pieces a day just for cooking and adding the transportation costs of buying coal, coal accounts to a huge chunk of their home utility expenses. is a community that recognizes the importance of looking for renewable sources of energy. The local parish has spearheaded a project that would allow 100 families in Song Shu to replace coal for cooking and lighting with a renewable source of energy – biogas. Biogas is a renewable natural gas that contains approximately 70% methane (CH4) and roughly 30% carbon dioxide and trace amounts of other gases. Sources for biogas production include manure (hog, cattle and poultry) and energy crops cut as silage (wheat, barley, triticale, clover, alfalfa, rye grass, turnips and corn), sources which are very much available in Song Shu Village all year round. The parish’s efforts in seeking free and renewable sources of energy comes as a huge welcome to these farmers.
The key to the success of this project is the construction of 100 small-scale and low-cost waste digesters which would be distributed to 100 families who signed up for the project. The price of building a low-cost waste digester is ¥1,700.00 ( €169.00 or ₤134.00 or $249.00). The families have agreed to shoulder ¥700.00 of the cost. Each digester will then need ¥1,000.00 ( €99.00 or ₤79.00 or $146.00). Our promise is that 100% of your donation will be transferred to the Song Shu Biogas Project. Your donation will help empower 100 families not only to be free from the economic burdens of coal, but it will also help them to become active participants of environmental change. Donate now and help add another brick in the Great Wall of Charity in China
China, like many other countries is still dependent on the use of fossil fuel. Coal is still being widely used in China as burning fuel for energy, heating and cooking. Even mega cities like Beijing and Shanghai are still dependent on coal for electricity. Rural China is highly dependent on coal. Although the Chinese government recognizes the severe toll that coal production and use to ecology and society, the black gold still ranks as one of the primary sources of energy in the country. Looking for an alternative source of energy is slowly becoming the focus of the Chinese government. It’s slow, but they’re getting there