http://www.off-grid.net/2008/05/14/bio-town-usa/ Microgeneration, Fuel Cells, Environment, inverters, free stuff, Solar panels, Wind turbines, Hydro power, Biomass, Solar power, wind power, water power,Rainwater, Resilience, Survival, Bushcraft, affordable homes, eco-Architecture, Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:08:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.off-grid.net/2008/05/14/bio-town-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-229715 Melvin Shadowen Sat, 02 May 2009 18:42:55 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/2008/05/14/bio-town-usa/#comment-229715 With 150,000 hogs and the the right technology Bio Town can be setting pretty as folks used to say. By using a FACULATIVE digester the town would achieve total waste digestion. This means that during the spring pump out of their lagoon they would only have to deal with coffee colored odor free water thats 95 to 98% nutrient free. It can be sprayed onto fields with no worry of ground water contamination. All the mineral salts from the manure are converted into small dense sand sized crystals that can be marketed as environmentally safe fertelizer. Thwse crystals are water insoluable and are dissolved only by the acids of the plant roots. this gives you a fretilizer that need only be reapplied every three to five years , and that would save farmers and nursery owners a lot of time and money. Hog manure will produce just as much methane and electrical energy pound for pound as cattle manure. Bio Town is a great idea whose time is now. With 150,000 hogs and the the right technology Bio Town can be setting pretty as folks used to say. By using a FACULATIVE digester the town would achieve total waste digestion. This means that during the spring pump out of their lagoon they would only have to deal with coffee colored odor free water thats 95 to 98% nutrient free. It can be sprayed onto fields with no worry of ground water contamination. All the mineral salts from the manure are converted into small dense sand sized crystals that can be marketed as environmentally safe fertelizer. Thwse crystals are water insoluable and are dissolved only by the acids of the plant roots. this gives you a fretilizer that need only be reapplied every three to five years , and that would save farmers and nursery owners a lot of time and money. Hog manure will produce just as much methane and electrical energy pound for pound as cattle manure. Bio Town is a great idea whose time is now.

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