Catholics taught to produce alternative energy
Foreign ecologists have asked Catholics in eastern Indonesia to produce alternative energy from the region’s dry season, which lasts for about nine months a year.
“We can try to change the sun’s heat into alternative energy,” German scientist Jurgen Kleinwachter told more than 50 Catholics attending a Nov. 26 ecology workshop held in the Maumere diocese in East Nusa Tenggara.
Father Peter Walpole, director of the Philippines’ Institute of Environmental Science for Social Change, also suggested planting castor oil trees or Ricinus communis that can absorb rainwater and produce oil, which can be used as fuel.
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