Thai village firing up stoves with scooped poop
Pa Deng villagers now unlikely experts in generating power while minimising their ecological footprint
Pa Deng, Thailand
NESTLED in a deep pocket of forest that lies off Thailand's electrical grid, villagers in Pa Deng have become early adopters and evangelists for an unusual alternative energy source: poop.
After successfully lighting up their homes with solar panels and stoves fuelled by cow dung, the villagers are now clean energy crusaders in a gas-guzzling country that overwhelmingly relies on fossil fuels.
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