Cottonseed oil powers rural cell phone systems in India
A pilot project in India is using biodiesel - including oil from cottonseed - to power cell phone base station generators in areas that don't have electrical service. Biodiesel is seen as a better alternative to gasoline, which tends to be of poorer quality and contaminated in rural parts of the country.
The project was proposed by several major phone companies, including Ericsson. The idea is that fuels can be grown locally. By mid 2007, the project's coordinators hope to have 10 biofueled base stations up and running in west India. A similar project in Nigeria has been powering cell phone base stations with peanut oil.
Click here to read a report posted on the BBC web site.
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