Re: Methane Digester -- Anybody use or heard of this?

Posted by WA-Hal on January 24, 2010 at 15:00:57 from (208.81.157.90):

In Reply to: Methane Digester -- Anybody use or heard of this? posted by oldtractorfun on January 24, 2010 at 13:48:24:

Many years ago Mother Earth News Magazine had several articles about building methane digesters on a much smaller scale, for small farmers and homeowners. I never tried building one, but they looked like a person could produce some methane with relatively little investment.

Methane is produced as manure decomposes and usually it just is lost to the air. The digesters capture the methane before it can mix with the air.

I suspect that the large manure producers are trying to figure out how to deal with the manure in ways that the ecology people consider proper. I also bet they are getting federal subsidies to build the huge digesters--and I bet the break even point would be a lot longer than 10 years without the subsidies.

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• Re: Methane Digester -- Anybody use or heard of this? Jon Hagen 15:45:28 01/24/10 (0)

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