>What I have taken away from readings of accounts of Pain's work is that he
>was producing methane without the use of animal waste; that the methane was
>derived entirely from the "forest thicket compost" itself. If anyone can
>refute that methane is absolutely not obtainable from wood products as the
>base source of the methane, (and not merely for the heating of animal
>wastes) this would put the issue to rest.
>
Swamp gas is methane. It is produced by the decomposition of vegetable
matter.