米糠也能用来发电?

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Simon Bishop: There are between two and three billion people in the world who don’t have access to basic energy services, such as electricity or efficient, clean fuels for cooking their food. That’s the kind of thing which we should try and tackle.

西蒙．贝夏普：全球大约有二三十亿人的生活缺乏基本能源的保障，没法用电或高效清洁的燃料做饭。这是一个我们必须面对和解决的问题。

[en]You are listening to Simon Bishop of the Shell Foundation and he is talking about energy poverty – a lack of access to basic energy needs.[/en

您正收听到的是对的西蒙贝．夏普的采访，他是壳牌基金会的会员。他谈到能源匮乏的问题——基本能源需求得不到满足。

[en]Simon Bishop: So, for example, if you take that issue of half the world’s population, cooking on open fires and traditional stoves, there are stoves out there called ‘clean cook stoves’ – that dramatically reduce both fuel use and emissions. And the great thing about them is they are potential self-financing solution to this health, poverty, energy, climate change issue because people can pay the roughly $20 price tag for the stoves through the fuel savings they make over the first six months. So it’s a self-financing solution.[/en

西蒙．贝夏普：世界一半人口都是用传统炉灶生火做饭，就这点举例来说，就有一种称为“清洁火炉”的炉灶能有效减少燃料消耗和废气排放，更棒的这种炉子的价格在人们经济承受范围之内，因为只需要20美元，而这个炉子买后六个月为人们省下的燃料钱就把这20美元成本收回来了，所以这是一个解决能源匮乏和气候变化等问题的好法子，人们能自筹经费做到。

[en]Bishop said his team looks for solutions that can scale up, or be replicated all over the world. He spoke of Husk Power Systems in India.

贝夏普说，他的团队正在寻求能在全球范围普及的解决之道。他还提到了印度的“米糠发电系统”。

[en]Simon Bishop: This organization takes rice husks, which are waste material, and it turns them into electricity. This is a huge step forward for those local populations.[/en

西蒙．贝夏普：电厂用米糠这种废料发电，对改善当地人生活来说，算是前进了一大步。