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OK, I didn't know how much detail I should go into with my
initial request, but, so here are some details: My hope is to be
able to produce enough biogas to cook with , and run a gas refridgerator.
I realize alot more than that can be done with the gas ( like running a water
heater, and a generator for electricity), but I do not think I will ever have
enough animals to produce that amount of gas. At the moment I only have 2
big dogs, 6 sheep, one goat, a rabbit, a banty hen, and an adult
llama. Eventually ( by this time next year at the latest)
we will have a quite a few more chickens ( I'm thinking possibly a
hundred-ish) easily twice, or more, the number of sheep, a couple dozen
rabbits, and either a few milk goats, or one small (jersey) milk cow, and
2 or 3 feeder pigs/piglets, in addition to the dogs, and llama. Sorry
to be so vague on the number of animals, but these are all still near future
plans.
What I am looking for in a book, is one that
contains information on construction of the most simplest biogas
digestors. The kind a person could construct her/his self, if
they had to. In addition I,d like some info on how to use this gas,
like how to modify natural gas appliances to run on biogas, and aproximately how
much is needed for those appliances. Lots of photos/diagrams, and
examples would be great, too. What I don't need is plans or information
on gigantic tank digestors that are designed to handle the waste generated
by huge dairy cow business's, or 100's of sow farrowing operations. Now,
maybe there is no such book available? I don't know. Those of you on
the list who have read, or seen some of the books available, please let me
know which ones you liked the best, or which were the most informative, or
helpfull for you, or which ones were worthless. Has anyone on the list
built any simple digestors? How did it work? What are you running on
biogas? Any information, advice, suggestions, and book
recomendations or reviews, are very appreciated. I hope these details
are what was needed. Oh, btw, I live in south eastern Nebraska. Thank you
to everyone for your help. Oh, yes, how does one
get ahold of Dr. Tim
Lucas?
Thanks,
Janet Snider.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: DIG-L: Fw: biogas books
If you let the list know a little about what you want to use
and where you want to do it we could help. No one book is a; do all, tell all,
for all, locations. Dr. Tim Lucas has a program that costs you nothing, to get
the right system.
B G Bingham
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