Re: [Biofuel] Kyoto- termites CH4-and messing with the natural order of things

2005-02-23 Thread Rick Littrell
Thank you. I couldn't remember if it was just bacteria or a combination of bacteria and termites. I don't follow the sealed container. How did he renew the material in the container? Was the pile around the container just to supply heat for the process or was it fed into the container

Re: [Biofuel] Kyoto- termites CH4-and messing with the natural order of things

2005-02-23 Thread Keith Addison
Dear Keith, Thank you. I couldn't remember if it was just bacteria or a combination of bacteria and termites. I don't follow the sealed container. How did he renew the material in the container? Was the pile around the container just to supply heat for the process or was it fed into

Re: [Biofuel] Kyoto- termites CH4-and messing with the natural order of things

2005-02-22 Thread John Guttridge
imagine whole plants full of farting cows and termites harnessed to generate the worlds energy! imagine the smell! it would have to be constructed in new jersey, it already stinks there anyway. on another note: I was just in Hawaii where they have a huge problem with mongoose, they

Re: [Biofuel] Kyoto- termites CH4-and messing with the natural order of things

2005-02-22 Thread Rick Littrell
This is not so wild an idea as you suggest. I remember reading a few years back about a fellow in France who piled up a huge mound of waste wood chips and drove a pipe into the center of it. As the termites went to work in the pile as well, I suppose, as bacteria, the methane they

Re: [Biofuel] Kyoto- termites CH4-and messing with the natural order of things

2005-02-22 Thread Keith Addison
Dear John, This is not so wild an idea as you suggest. I remember reading a few years back about a fellow in France who piled up a huge mound of waste wood chips and drove a pipe into the center of it. Jean Pain: France's King of Green Gold