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  • From: "robscott@freeshell.org" <robscott@freeshell.org>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Bamboo "stillage" ??
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:33:49 +0000 (UTC)


To Will from Oregon,

I'm interested in this.

Could you say more about the "stillage" -- are you saying that bamboo is used for alcoholic fermentation, and then the alcohol goes to the stills while the bamboo skelatons are then processed by lactic acid fermentation microbes to produce a silage for cattle?? What on earth are the microbes using at that point, lignin?!?

It's an awesome concept - skimming alcohol before feeding instead of wasting methane after - but I requires more details to understand this.

Rob Scott
Urbana, IL

p.s. for people new to this issue: silage is a fermented food for cattle. A *silo* is typically packed with say, hay, and digested in a process that produces organic acids. Kind of like sauerkraut for cattle, to aid in digestion (and thus reduce methane emissions).



From: Will Carey <cure@rtinet.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Soil & CO2


So the system looks like this:

Pasture runoff =>Nitrogen fixed in Bamboo Bioswales => Bamboo chopped for
Alcohol Stills =>Predigested "Stillage" fed to Cattle=>lowered Methane
emissions from ruminants and Biofuels yield.

The late Simon Henderson... Our Bamboo Guru in Seattle.... worked with
Washington State Extension service on field trials for this sort of thing.
They had great yields and good results for nitrogen uptake. But the results
have not been published, according to Daphne Lewis, who worked with Simon on
the project.



  • [permaculture] Bamboo "stillage" ??, robscott@freeshell.org, 01/28/2006

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