AFFORDABLE BIOGAS!

If you’ve ever looked into commercial biogas equipment, you know it’s an expensive proposition. $40,000 gets you a basic system, sized for a dairy or a pig farm.

So where does that leave the little guy? Take a look at this

A lot of quality goodies, for $1095.

This is a great deal. A digester cap, and a bunch of great biogas appliances.

You get a terrific tankless water heater (2 gpm at a 70 degree temp rise)

There’s a two burner stove. A rice cooker that will work equally well as a crock pot. A gas lamp. And you get all the fittings, tubing, a pressure gauge and a desulphurizer.

These are special components made exclusively for us. Our digester cap is made from thick, durable fiberglass. It fits into a digester body.

You will find that digester body locally anywhere in the US – it's a common commercial concrete precast. Concrete companies make them by the millions, and they even deliver them to you and place them in your excavation. Prices vary, but figure about $1000.

That’s right, you can set up a biogas plant and get all those appliances for less than $2500.

Our biogas appliances will take the gas from your digester and heat water, cook meals, or even light a cabin. A few pounds of fresh animal manure added to the digester every few days will provide enough gas to cook all the meals for your family. Grass clippings, vegetable scraps – your digester will eat them all and pay you back in fuel!

SO what is biogas, anyway?

Of all the homemade energy options, this is the simplest. Take waste, add water, put into a container, and wait a few days.

That's right, it's a NATURAL PROCESS!

Our digesters let you harness that process, and our biogas appliances let you put the gas to work.

There's an excellent biogas manual available at the website of University of Adelaide in Australia (see http://www.ees.adelaide.edu.au/pharris/biogas/beginners.html)

Author Paul Harris has a nice definition:

"Biogas is generated when bacteria degrade biological material in the absence of oxygen, in a process known as anaerobic digestion. ...(It) is basically a simple process carried out in a number of steps that can use almost any organic material as a substrate - it occurs in digestive systems, marshes, rubbish dumps, (and) septic tanks..."

Biogas is 60 percent methane and 40 percent carbon dioxide. It is flammable. You can burn it straight out of the digester.

If you are a farmer, you know that biogas plants have long been available to process your livestock waste. Problem is, they cost in the high 5 figures to design and install. Our digester components are so affordable you can experiment without that huge capital outlay. If you decide to expand, just add more digesters and combine their biogas output. With enough digesters, you could even power a generator! How much gas can you make? This chart gives you an idea.

And here's another great thing to know. The spent digester fluid has value as fertilizer – pump it onto your fields and let your crops use it.

Now a reality check. You need to be a DIY'er with common sense. Methane is flammable, it can burn you. If it's confined with oxygen it can explode. That means you can get hurt.

You should get informed about biogas before you start. Google it, read up about it. If you don't have the time to do your homework, please don't buy these components and expect us to educate you.

It's your responsibility to find out what local regulatory hoops you will have to jump through in order to set up your biogas plant. It's also your responsibility to comply with them.

So – ready to start taking a little more control of your energy destiny? Are you handy with simple tools, and are you willing to get your hands dirty?

Installation of a biogas plant will require you to excavate a hole in the ground (hire a backhoe) and once the concrete precast has been delivered and placed into the hole, to install the gasholder with some bolts drilled into concrete. You will need to have a way to collect waste, mix it with water to make a slurry, and pump or gravity feed it into the digester. You will have tubing emerging from the digester, delivering raw biogas to wherever it will be burned.

None of this is very difficult. But it will require physical labor, use of tools, and the ability to USE YOUR BRAIN! Common sense seems to be a rare commodity today, now that lawyers and regulators have encouraged us to behave like sheep. I don’t do business with sheep.

But I’d like to do business with you.

Russell P. Groves

Flint Hills Diesel & Biofuel

1065 140th Rd.

Hillsboro, KS 67063

http://www.flinthillsdiesel.com

316-215-2198 cell