From: Bob Ewing & Jocelyn Paquette <sixdegrees@baynet.net>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Biogas digester plans
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:34:00 -0500
Greetings, i just posted my question about Jean pain and thi came in. It fits
with what i've read. I'd liek to find a copy of his book. there is a web site
but my French is too weak to understand it. http://www.jean-pain.com/index1.htm
Bob
Harold Waldock wrote:
> The only successful project involving "simple tech" methane on the
> "temperate" home farm is rumoured to be in Jean Pain's book about forestry.
> He operated in high country in the south of France. The vague memory is that
> he developed a (patented)woodchipper that encouraged composting of the
> chips. He ran pipes through the huge piles of chips and heated his
> greenhouse and his home and the methane producing tanks. He got all his
> woodchips from the forest fire control cuts which he was doing.