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experience with anaerobic fermentation out there ? | 22 comments (22 topical, editorial)

Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#9)
by elvin1949 (elvin1949@yahoo.com) on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 01:22:09 AM MST
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jacquesm

Earlier this evening NBC nightly news had a piece about a dairy farmer/cheese factory in Minnesota sp? doing that.

They had a 6,000 dollar electric bill every month and a HUGE waste problem.

They built a digester that was as tall as a grain silo and looked to be at least 5 times as big around.

They fed it with cattle waste then fed the methane to several large generators. They are producing enough electricity to offset all of there use. And supplying 60 other homes around them with all the power they need. Also the affluent left over feeds there pastures.

The article should be online at NBC's website.

later
Elvin

Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#10)
by elvin1949 (elvin1949@yahoo.com) on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 01:35:38 AM MST
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Sorry
I forgot something. Years ago [ early 80's ]
the Mother Earth News did a interview with a pig farmer in South Africa that was doing the same thing. I think his name was John L Fry.
He described the whole operation with pictures.
later
Elvin

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Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#11)
by jmk on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 07:00:23 AM MST
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I saw an edition yesterday too on a dairy farmer in Waterloo Wisconsin. Maybe this is the same farmer? He gets the methane from the manure to power his farm. Then they use the manure for fertilizer. They have a dairy farm that makes lots of cheese
jmk
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Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#17)
by elvin1949 (elvin1949@yahoo.com) on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 06:02:11 AM MST
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jmk
I was half asleep when it came on.
I think you are right ,it as the same one.
later
Elvin

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Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#12)
by finnsawyer on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 08:44:01 AM MST
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So the left over rich feed their pastures? Man, our foreign brethren must have some puzzled looks reading this stuff. Anyway, I saw that segment too and didn't see any rich folks other than the farmers themselves.
GeoM
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Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#13)
by TomW on Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 09:46:50 AM MST
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Ok so finn is our thread spelling comedic now?

Affluent, effluent...

massage message...

Hope it ends soon before the wrong people get insulted.

Some folks don't seem to appreciate or get the humor or don't see it as humorous like I do, however.

My personal favorite is guide wires for guy wires.

J, sorry for the topic drift.

T

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Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#16)
by finnsawyer on Sun Apr 13th, 2008 at 08:44:02 AM MST
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Just wondering. Who are the wrong people? Is there money involved somewhere in this? O.K. I needled those guys about the words and flagged the issues for foreign readers, but what really gets my goat is the "there" for "their" error. Come on, if English is your native language you know the difference. Don't be so sloppy.

GeoM
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Re: experience with anaerobic fermentation out the (3.00 / 0) (#18)
by elvin1949 (elvin1949@yahoo.com) on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 06:04:35 AM MST
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finn
I stepped in it that time.
later
Elvin

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