Dear Jonathan, at least in urban India, the digestible waste generated by a family amounts to hardly a kiligram per day. It is not enough to satisfy all the cooking energy needs of a family. We provide household baogas plants to individual families but warn them that they would still need some other source of energy in the form of LPG, natural gas, kerosene or electricity to supplement the biogas. A community biogas plant is feasible in a condominium, but we found that it was not possible to provide individual families with biogas from the community biogas plant, because there were disputes about the quantity of biogas used by each user. We advocate using the biogas from a community biogas plant for a common purpose, like charging the batteris of the lifts, pumping water from the underground tank to the overhead tank, or for lighting the common areas like parking areas, stair cases, corridors etc. With the new LED technology, relatively less enery is used up in lighting. Yours A.D.Karve
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently working on a residential/commercial development of 300 > residential units and a research park. The focus of the development is to > have an internal utility grid where green energy as well as waste disposal > technologies can be tested in a controlled environment. The design will > allow for testing of single-family, multi-family or commercial units > individually or up to the entire grid or portions thereof. > > At this point, I have fielded many questions concerning the number and mix > of the units within the grid. I used standard municipal utility numbers to > arrive at the unit counts. I have now been getting feedback that just 300 > units would not provide enough data to be scalable to a municipal level. > Then I've also been getting the naysayers, doubting the viability of the > project as a whole... > > I would very much appreciate any thoughts or feedback. > > Thanks, > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > Digestion mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/digestion_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more information about digestion, see > Beginner's Guide to Biogas > http://www.adelaide.edu.au/biogas/ > and the Biogas Wiki http://biogas.wikispaces.com/ > > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) _______________________________________________ Digestion mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/digestion_lists.bioenergylists.org for more information about digestion, see Beginner's Guide to Biogas http://www.adelaide.edu.au/biogas/ and the Biogas Wiki http://biogas.wikispaces.com/
