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02-15-2008, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by heldengebroed
I'm planning to cook and produce electricity on dung when i come over to the DR.
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Just follow politicians around with a bag. 
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02-15-2008, 11:52 AM
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I'm planning to cook and produce electricity on dung when i come over to the DR.
Small scale project worked great.
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Please tell us more abut this Johan. Dried cowdung has been used for many years where I come from to make cook fires - it really is only grass and does not smell bad if the animals are healthy. What small scale project did you do that worked great 
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02-15-2008, 12:05 PM
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Yes, my reply was only partially tongue in cheek. Actually, I've seen an interesting design for a dung burning stove a while back. I have lived without central heating and air for fifteen years ( heat with wood taken from my property) and came across the dung burning stove while researching wood stoves. Many people around the world use it as fuel as, afterall, the world is full of sh*t. : )
Johan, how would you use dung to produce electricity?
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02-15-2008, 12:12 PM
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Johan, how would you use dung to produce electricity?
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Gives a whole different meaning to a "s#!++y generator"...
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02-15-2008, 02:00 PM
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Gives a whole different meaning to a "s#!++y generator"... |
Not with dung as such but with a product made from dung
And here i stop in order not to give to much info
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02-15-2008, 03:06 PM
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Ach meine liebe gott! YOU brought it up. No need to be coy.
Greetings,
Sollie
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02-15-2008, 04:28 PM
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Ach meine liebe gott!
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Sollie, this was really funny. But I think Johan is Dutch .. Let me get at him Johan, vertel nou dadelik vir ons wat die storie is! 
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02-15-2008, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by sollie
...Johan, how would you use dung to produce electricity?
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I think Johan is referring to Biogas. Biogas is made from cow dung and is about 50-60% Methane, 30-40% carbon dioxide. It also contains traces of hydrogen, nitrogen and other 'stuff' (I don't remember what the other stuff is right now and I don't want to google). One pound of cow dung produces about one cubic foot of Biogas with a heating value of about 600-700 BTUs. Biogas can be used wherever natural gas or propane can be use with minor modification to the device. Biogas can be used in conventional gas stoves, gasoline engines and gasoline powered electrical generator (to produce electricity).
Biogas have a few other applications, if you are interested in more details google for: cow dung and poultry littler waste digesters, biogas, DIY biogas digester plans.
NotLurking.
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02-15-2008, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris
Sollie, this was really funny. But I think Johan is Dutch .. Let me get at him Johan, vertel nou dadelik vir ons wat die storie is! |
I thought he lived in Belgium and that's as close as I can get to Flemish.
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02-15-2008, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by NotLurking
I think Johan is referring to Biogas. Biogas is made from cow dung and is about 50-60% Methane, 30-40% carbon dioxide. It also contains traces of hydrogen, nitrogen and other 'stuff' (I don't remember what the other stuff is right now and I don't want to google). One pound of cow dung produces about one cubic foot of Biogas with a heating value of about 600-700 BTUs. Biogas can be used wherever natural gas or propane can be use with minor modification to the device. Biogas can be used in conventional gas stoves, gasoline engines and gasoline powered electrical generator (to produce electricity).
Biogas have a few other applications, if you are interested in more details google for: cow dung and poultry littler waste digesters, biogas, DIY biogas digester plans.
NotLurking.
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Thanks NotLurking,
That's what I was getting at. Are there feasable small scale applications?
Sollie
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