permaculture

["Scott Hitchins" <ScottH@wcig.org.au>]

Werribee sewage farm, Melbourne Australia, has several of its settling ponds 
/ ageing lagoons covered with enormous 'rubber' membranes and are apparently 
generating all their own electricity and are hoping to eventually sell to the 
grid. They may be worth contacting.  They also produce over a million dollars 
of beef and lamb each year on (treated) waste-irrigated grass.  They are also 
a very large bird sanctuary.

Scott 

scotth@wcig.org.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Ewing & Jocelyn Paquette [mailto:sixdegrees@baynet.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2002 12:17 PM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Biogas digester plans


Greetings, anyone here familiar with the work of Jean Pain?

Bob

Robert Waldrop wrote:

> Haven't the Chinese exploited this on a fairly large scale in the
> countryside?  Perhaps the Chinese embassy could help with some plans.
>
> Robert Waldrop, OKlahoma City
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hall <JRHALL@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
> >My understanding from an independent researcher who had tried to
> develop a small farm scale biogas system for many years is that
> temperate climates are a huge obstacle to small scale biogas systems.
> The most efficient microbes are very picky about temperature, so you
> need a very warm and stable space for them to do their work. I think
> thats the reason many have tried and only a few systems in the warmest
> climates have actually succeeded...
>
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