The production and use of oil energy and earth gas seems to continue to increase and the possible potential of energy will be reduced and exhausted in the future. A variety of ways of innovation continues to be carried out and developed as a step of fuel oil and petroleum gas saving.
As developed in Massagesewu Village, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java. Since 2007 a man-made gas fuel innovation from cow's dirt continues to be developed until now, Biogas Sapi.
Before the development of biogas energy in the village, residents still use fuel oil and LPG gas to cook. Lambat laun biogas development continues to do. Up to now have been built as much as 40 installations of digester of beef biogas that can be channeled to 100 family heads used as fuel gas for cooking and lighting on the light of the scent.
People across the village road by carrying livestock cattle in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
Warga feeds his own cow in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
The majority of people are cattle breeders that are 120 breeders, it is not difficult to find basic ingredients in biogas making. Every morning the farmer collects cow's dirt then smoothed with water. After that the dirt of the cow is deposited into the digester of the biogas to produce the gas.
To build an independent village of gas energy, every year the village government of Massagesewu targets a minimum build 10 digester of beef biogas, which is expected to be regarded by locals as fuel gas for cooking and lighting so that it can save costs and save the use of petroleum and gas energy.
Photo and Text: Aloysius Jarot Nugroho
A citizen collects cow dirt in the morning in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
The work of arranging stones when building a digester of cattle biogas in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
A citizen controls the deposit of cow impurities on biogas digester in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
A citizen controls the channel of the biogas pipe broadcasting to the house in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
The people show the pressure of the biogas cited to the house in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
A citizen opens the main control tap on the biogas digester digester pipe channel broadcasted to the house in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
People install biogas channel hoses on stoves in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
Biogas light bulbs are passed by residents to use their home lighting in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
Warga lighted biogas light for home lighting in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
A citizen opens the tap of a biogas channel that was broadcasted to the house in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.
Warga emphasizes biogas stove for cooking in Massagesewu, Ampel, Boyolali, Central Java.