Green Ideas

Hi Green People! I will post a more thorough explanation later, but I am currently attempting to create a "Gobar Gas" unit at my house. The basic concept is that we have left over rice banana peels and other kitchen waste. The idea is that I don't want to just sent that trash to some dump and it is actually the basis for fuel(methane). Of course if your food has any oil in it like french fries then you can't use that. Basically anything that will break down. Cow Dung is the best, but since I don't have a cow(no pun intended) I can use basic kitchen waste. I expect that from our household I should get about 1 hour of cooking gas every day after about one month. The Basic premise is that: 1. - I would buy 2 large pvc based containers of different sizes and then I would cut them in half. 2. - I would use the smaller half on the bottom and the larger half on the top. 3. I would also need some piping. Some 4 inch piping at/towards the top of the bottom half that would act as a collector for the waste product. Ironically the sludge that is created in the Gobar Gas Unit would push out from the top. The waste product is nutrient rich and could be used in the garden as a natural fertilizer. 4. The next piping I would need to install would be towards the bottom of the unit. It would start tapped into the bottom, but would have its opening at the facing the sky higher than the bottom half. This would be where I add the fuel(banana peels). 5. The last pipe should be a soft plastic "gas grade" tubing that would be where we would tap the top half of the Gobar Gas Unit. This is where we would get the cooking gas from. That would pretty much be it. It could be done with stuff from Home Depot and could be a great experiment to do with kids and also a way to generate energy from the waste you produce at home in the kitchen. One important point is that you would need to crush whatever you put into the unit and add a bit of water with what you are putting in, so there is a little bit of physical effort required. I will put up a detailed instruction with the designs I have created later on. Enjoy!