[Santa_Cruz_Permaculture] Beginner's Biogas Workshops...

[David]

Dear friends,


        ...If you are not interested in alternative energy, please
        ignore/delete...


This is David House, author of The Complete Biogas Handbook (here 
<http://www.completebiogas.com>). As you might know, I also facilitate 
Beginner's Biogas Workshops (as described on the workshops page linked 
to the book's website, here <http://completebiogas.com/workshops.html>)...

I'm a permaculture novice, or maybe even a dilettante-- of very low 
status in any case-- but based on what I've read of Mollison and 
Holmgren, Jacke and others, it seems to me that the wealth of 
information required to gain a certificate-- and indeed almost any 
effort to live ecologically-- would benefit by more complete and 
practical information about alternative energy. Direct solar energy is 
of course a prime candidate, but for ages and cycles it has been the 
/biological collection/ of solar energy that has powered human 
systems. And except for food & fodder (and wood burning in a properly 
designed stove), biogas is arguably the most efficient, least 
expensive, most ecological form of biosolar energy. More so than 
biodiesel; more so than ethanol... In fact. (More details? See this 
article 
<http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/03/why-is-biogas-renewable-energys-cinderella>.)

My particular attempt to assist mankind to move in the green 
direction, in part, is by the above-mentioned workshops, which I've 
been thinking of as "Zero to Biogas In Two Days". These evolving 
workshops have been offered at many places in the US, and as far 
afield as Australia. For example, in 2011, invitations came from the 
prestigious National Center for Alternative Technology, by 
permaculturists in CA and PA, by aquaponics practitioners in HI and FL 
(among others) to provide workshops teaching people how to think 
about, make and use biogas. (In Australia, our host was a farmer, 
Steven Hobbs, who has run his tractors on biodiesel and SVO for the 
better part of a decade, and who was interested in using the leftover 
press-cake-- most often from from mustard seed, in his case-- to 
produce biogas.)

And just now, I am in the process of setting up workshops for 2012.

What I am looking for are partners who are well-connected, who can 
organize a suitable event, and who can mount an effective campaign to 
inform people locally and regionally about the workshop. I provide 
everything else, including a 200-gallon (0.75 cu m) biogas digester 
kit for anyone who wants one. ($35 ea. to class participants. Treat it 
right and it'll give you all the biogas you need for cooking your 
meals...) The organizer(s) and I pay expenses out of income and share 
the profits generated, as I can further explain to those interested.

So: would /you/ be interested in working with me to set up a workshop? 
Please write to me and let's talk. I'll even throw in a couple of 
jokes. (Let's not bother the list with our back and forth...)


And meanwhile, if you have a question about biogas, please let me 
know, and I will answer as possible...




d.
-- 
David William House
"The Complete Biogas Handbook" |www.completebiogas.com|
/Vahid Biogas/, an alternative energy consultancy |www.vahidbiogas.com

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"Make no search for water.       But find thirst,
And water from the very ground will burst."
(Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in /Delight of Hearts/, p. 77)

http://bahai.us/

-- 
David William House
"The Complete Biogas Handbook" |www.completebiogas.com|
/Vahid Biogas/, an alternative energy consultancy |www.vahidbiogas.com

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"Make no search for water.       But find thirst,
And water from the very ground will burst."
(Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in /Delight of Hearts/, p. 77)

http://bahai.us/

-- 
David William House
"The Complete Biogas Handbook" |www.completebiogas.com|
/Vahid Biogas/, an alternative energy consultancy |www.vahidbiogas.com

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"Make no search for water.       But find thirst,
And water from the very ground will burst."
(Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in /Delight of Hearts/, p. 77)

http://bahai.us/
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