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experience with anaerobic fermentation out there ?
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experience with anaerobic fermentation out there ?
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by Bruce S (
bruce(dot)stahl <at>gmail (dot)(com)
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I'll second Rich's link, Al Rutan was a pioneer in this area.
There's an entire history including his complete how to over on journeytoforever website.
I did build the one also done in England by a gent who was all about using chicken droppings for Methane based fuel. The plastic and tire method seemed to work very well. Heed ALL the warnings about letting go of the first outputs, they can explode ;_)
The water bubbling works to remove sulfar smell as well.
I quit due to lack of availble droppings and not the least that the city wanted nothing to do with letting me try from pipe cast offs :-) Dog/cat and others turned out to be too low an output without "adding" stuff.
I do hope your friend does take this on, getting started is easy enough and fairly cheap. Just becareful and do run the output through a water bubbler>>> you'll be glad you did.
The solids left over after I shut it down was some of the best "stuff" my container grown tomatoes grew like weeds :-)
Google chicken poop for fuel and have a good read!! its very informative and the old guy was way smart too. I wish I could find some of the pumping equipment he used to pressurize , once at a specific pressure it stays liquid easily.
Keep us up to date!!
Bruce S
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