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[Narrator] She is a singular miracle, spinning on silently.]
[Her mirth and her tears, her heart beats with ours.]
[She is mother earth. She is Gaia.]
[Fifty acres, 1,500 dairy businesses, 150,000 heads of cattle.]
[This is the Haebowal diary complex in Ludhiana, India,]
[and these are the new faces of renewable energy.]
[They do not spew thick smoke into the air nor spill copious amounts of crude oil]
[but they ruminate and poop, and when they do, they give off methane,]
[a gas 21 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.]
[it's a nasty problem for the city.]
[Basically, the cow dung, it is a big problem for all the dairy owners,]
[All the roads are filled with dung.]
[You can't enter. You can't go anywhere.]
[The roads are totally damaged due to this thing because is acidic.]
[Every day this biomethanation plant collects 235 tons of dung from the surrounding dairies. ]
[Mixed with water, the mixture then goes through an anaerobic fermentation process,]
[whereby microbes produce bio-gas, a mix of methane and carbon dioxide.]
[This is fed into GE's Jenbacher gas engine, capable of producing 20,000 kilowatt hours ]
[In a year this is able to power-up 3,200 European homes. ]
[The Jenbacher bio gas engine is one of the 60 green products GE has on the market today.]
[GE has launched an ecomagination drive in 2005 to dovetail profits with going green. ]
[[Colin Lom] Well, I think at the end of the day, we're a public company.]
[Our first and foremost commitment is to our shareholders.]
[It's all about making returns for our shareholders,]
[and ecomagination is all part of the process.]
[While we're making money, we're bettering the environment.]
[Hey, we're having the cake and eating it at the same time. ]
[[Narrator] At the same time it reduces greenhouse gases in the area by 80%,]
[only requiring 500 kilowatts for it's own operation.]
[The surplus is sold to the local grid.]
[The remnants of the fermentation process are made into fertilizer and sold.]
[[Colin Lom] As the emerging economies grow, they need a lot more new products,]
[and a lot more new investments in terms of bettering the lives of the people]
[And we see huge explosive growth in terms of the world's population.]
[This is all creating a big impact on the limited resources that planet earth has. ]
[[Narrator] And that's exactly where ecomagination comes into play.]
[An initiative to help companies find green solutions, GE decided to invest]
[more than $1 billion U.S. dollars on cleaner technology research ]
[PR Ploy, or bottom-line driven, or good old-fashioned ethics,]
[there's a green awakening among businesses today, and that's all that matters.]
[And since corporations are some of the largest environmental culprits,]
[it's a start to letting Gaia breath easy again.]
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