Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, who advocates for alternative fuels, said it is not difficult to use hydrogen as a fuel for cars, buses and trucks, and India has all the raw materials it needs.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Thursday that he had bought a car that runs on green hydrogen produced at the Faridabad Oil Research Institute for a pilot project. Ahead of a national financial inclusion summit, the transport minister said he would drive this car in Delhi to make people believe it was possible to make green hydrogen from water. The minister advocates the prospects of green hydrogen as a potential fuel for transport. “I have a plan to run buses, trucks and cars with green hydrogen, which is made from sewage and solid waste in cities,” the minister said at the summit.
Regarding a seven-year-old project that Gadkari initiated in Nagpur that would recycle the wastewater, Gadkari said Nagpur now sells its wastewater to the government’s Maharashtra power station and earns around 325 crore a year. “Nothing is rubbish. It depends on the vision of leadership and technology that waste can create wealth. Now I’m trying to see if we can add value to the wastewater. Every church has this water, ”he said.
“Train people so that green hydrogen can be made from this water. We have solid waste that can be covered with solar roofs that provide electricity at a cheaper price. So electricity is cheap and we have water and electrolysers are now being produced by India producing green hydrogen and this can be an alternative fuel. All buses, trucks and cars can be operated with it. It’s not difficult. I bought a hydrogen car that I’ll be driving in Delhi because people are taking their time, ideas out of the box, “said Gadkari.
Speaking of other innovative projects the minister was involved in, Nitin Gadkari said on a wall in his room that he had paint made from cow dung. “Gorakshan is not needed because people will not sell their cows if we can make cow dung and cow urine economically viable. Phenyl can be made from cow urine,” the minister said.
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