Imagine this. You’re planning a family vacation. Earlier, packing was simple. If you’re going closer to the coasts, pack for heat and humidity. If you’re going up the mountains, pack layers of sweaters. That was the hard and fast rule....
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Biomass Briquettes: Turning Waste Into Energy
Biomass briquette is becoming an alternative source of energy used to generate steam and electricity. This is a practical solution to the fast-growing demand for energy as it provides an affordable and renewable source. The use of biomass...
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Emissions: Understanding Scope 1, 2 & 3
Carbon emissions are not halting anytime soon. Credit goes to rapid industrialization and population rise, which will further continue to generate massive amounts of carbon emissions going forward as well. Though climate change is a harsh...
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How To Identify High-Quality Biomass Briquettes That Keep Your Furnaces & Boilers in Good Shape
If you lived in the 19th century, biomass would have been the key source of energy you used. People cooked their food and kept warm by burning biomass until coal took over. Now that coal is dying out, people are turning to biomass...
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Buyofuel: Creating a Pathway to Decarbonize India’s Manufacturing Sector?
What imagination does manufacturing evoke for you? We are surrounded by almost everything that has ever been created in the world. Notably, India’s manufacturing industry dates back about 4,000 years. Indians are proud of the...
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Time to Fasten Your Seat Belts for Biofuel-Powered flights Via Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
Flying is a concept that has fascinated humans since the dawn of time. You can find possible writings that depict flight experimentation in Greek mythology and Indian epics. Despite the fact that several other engineers built the...
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Navigating biofuel supply chain issues, how Buyofuel may help?
The ongoing energy crisis and the deterioration of the energy sector’s supply chain can be attributed to global uncertainty in the context of the looming Russia-Ukraine war. Climate change brought on by rising temperature also...
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Turning Waste to Watts – Does this idea make sense?
We use energy everywhere today. And, electricity is a straightforward example. Moreover, every aspect of our life today somehow revolves around energy. As a result of growing urbanization, industrialization, and lifestyle changes brought...
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Plastic scraps: How we got here and where to go next (with young entrepreneurs to the rescue)
You’re living in the Plastic Age, did you know? Yes, the 20th and 21st centuries are infamously called the Plastic Age. The cover your kitchen ingredients come packed in is plastic. The toothbrush you use, the keyboard you work on, your...
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Used Cooking Oil – How it benefits the economy and environment?
Today, we are immersed in an intricately complex world. Things may look simpler on the surface, yet all are interconnected, especially the environment and us. The view of the polluted environment as only a concern concept has changed...
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COP27 – Understanding India’s Perspective
Recent catastrophic events fueled by climate change, such as floods, heatwaves, cyclones, wildfires, unpredictable precipitation patterns, and whatnot, show that the world today is in a critical period. The urgency is evident, even though...
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Electricity Generation: Fossil Fuel Boilers vs Biomass Boilers
A boiler is a closed vessel in which coal, gas or oil is burnt to heat water and produce vapour or steam. The most used applications of a boiler are water heating, central heating, cooking and boiler-based power generation. Fossil Fuel...
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Is there a fuel crisis in India? Where are we leading?
Earlier in June this year, petrol pumps in states like Rajasthan and Karnataka saw long queues of vehicles waiting to get their tanks filled. So long that some petrol pumps had to close due to overcrowding. While several pumps across the...
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How can we, as citizens of India, contribute to its waste management strategy?
India produces nearly 60 million tonnes of garbage in a year. Alarmingly, this value will likely increase by about 165 million tonnes by 2030. This data brings out the facts and truth to light which paves the way to rethink and channel...
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Tyre oil – An up-and-coming alternative for industrial fuel
The global tyre market is thriving in recent years. Increasing sales of automobiles and demand for new tyres is the main reason. Each year, 1.6 billion tyres are produced worldwide. But have you wondered what happens after these tyres are...
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What is biomass? Is it really a renewable source of energy?
India accounts for 17.5% (2nd highest) of the world’s population. A huge population naturally equals a huge consumption of energy. To meet the expanding energy needs, the Indian government is increasingly relying on renewable energy....
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Agri residues and wood waste: A traditional biofuel
Bioenergy: Best sources of biofuel Biofuels, made from biomass (organic material), is a renewable energy source that can help address many of the challenges created by fossil fuels—the primary form of energy used today. Using biomass as a...
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How can Biofuel help with energy security?
The whole world is talking about carbon neutrality. Ever wondered what the fuzz is about? Carbon Neutrality is also called Net Zero Carbon, where the carbon emission caused by the transport, industries and machinery around our environment...
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A journey towards carbon neutrality
The whole world is talking about carbon neutrality. Ever wondered what the fuzz is about? Carbon Neutrality is also called Net Zero Carbon, where the carbon emission caused by the transport, industries and machinery around our environment...
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Plastics: waste or raw materials?
Introduction: We live in the age of plastic ruling the environment. Needless to say, it is incredibly useful in our modern world. Plastic has become a part of our lifestyle from the moment we wake up till the moment we go to bed. Plastic...
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Why Change From Conventional Fuels to Biofuels?
We live on this mother earth, which is home to all of us and our future generation. Just like how we enjoyed the beauty of mother earth, it’s our responsibility to create a healthier planet for our future generations as well. That said,...
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India’s Mantra to Win Big: “Innovate, Innovate, Innovate”
Am I trying to talk up, us Indians? Yes. Because we need a lot of it, right now. There is a huge crowd of people—Indians and outsiders including the media spewing constant negativity about us. Through my window to the world outside, all...
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The Threat of Used Cooking Oil Has Made Its Way Into Our Plates
The Danger in Our Plates: We are eating a slice of danger each time we consume a meal in a restaurant. Or a cafe or a bakery. We are not talking about how hygienic the kitchen is or how many unnecessary calories we are consuming. When we...
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Europe’s Biofuel Policies Are Harming the Rest Of the World
Most countries in the world began nurturing the growth of the biofuels industry at the turn of the century. Likewise, Europe began implementing its first biofuel-related policies in the year 2003. The overall production of biofuels in the...
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India and Biofuels: Excellent Policy-Making, Poor Real-World Execution
As we popularly know, India is one of the largest consumers of oil and fuel and imports about 82% of its oil needs. The Indian government aimed to bring it down to 67% by the year 2020 by replacing it with renewable energy and indigenous...
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Bio-CNG: A Stubble Burning Alternative and Lifesaver Of Air
Understanding Stubble Burning Every harvest of paddy brings with it a residue of straw stubble as a by-product. This by-product of stubble which comes in huge quantities is partially used as cattle feed but most of it is dumped as waste...
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Stop Imports of Fuel Oil to Save Biodiesel
This would sound more like a continuation to my previous post and might also sound increasingly repetitive from me, but I think this must be said loud now that it’s high time that MoPNG bans/ or severely restricts import of any product...
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Clearing the Biofuel Fog With Buyofuel
With our feet on the ground and heads looking up, trying to contemplate the carbon-di-oxide clogged layers of the atmosphere, the rocket of Buyofuel began its fabrication. Constructed by years of experience in the biofuel sector and...
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Biodiesel hunted by Spurious fuels
During the #WorldBiofuelDay webinar organized by, India’s premier OMCs IOC, BPCL and HPCL along with the #MNRE (Ministry Of New & Renewable Energy of India), enterprising Entrepreneurs, Julesh of Ecogreen Fuels and Shiva Vig of Bio-D...
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