permaculture

[Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>]

My totally novice understanding is that this is particularly important 
because methane contaminated with air is unpredictably explosive... 
don't know the mechanism, but I have read that the first wave of methane 
is typically discarded until the supply is pure and all oxygen is 
depleted in the digester.
Paul

John Fritz wrote:

> One of the basic questions I have about Pain's methods is probably generic in 
> relation to methane production but still relevant to understanding what he 
> did.  It concerns his use of inner tubes to store the methane.  Not being 
> particulararly inclined to mechanics, I do not visualize how he would have 
> connected a methane digester tank (from inside the compost pile) to the inner 
> tubes.  Not that the position of the tank inside the pile matters.  I would 
> just like to know the name of the materials used: the type of supply line 
> exiting the tank, the type of connector between the tank and the supply line; 
> and the type of connector between the supply line and the inner tubes and 
> between the inner tubes including the supply line between the inner tubes. 
> Any mechanically inclined members of the group who could fill me in?
>   
>  John Fritz, NW Arkansas.
>
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