Bulandshahr, India, May 6, 2026 (AFP) - India's cows offer biogas alternative to Mideast energy crunch

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2026-05-06

Across much of India, an energy crunch caused by the Iran war has prompted long queues for cooking gas cylinders. That's not a problem for Gauri Devi. On a stove with blue flames, she flips a chapati flatbread, burning biogas produced from cow dung -- an alternative fuel helping ease pressure on supplies. "It cooks everything," the 25-year-old said in her courtyard kitchen in Nekpur, a village in Uttar Pradesh, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) from......

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