January 10, 2007

Energy

Making fuel from manure

Al Rutan and his tabletop digester
Al Rutan & tabletop digester

The production of natural gas (CH4) occurs everywhere in nature in swamps, bogs, coal mines, land fills and in the guts of warm blooded mammals. In fact, anyplace where organic matter is present and air is excluded.

It is this same vapor gas that the utility companies market. Made by nature and deposited in the ground over eons of time, the chemical formula is one part carbon to four parts hydrogen (CH4).…

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