by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 6, 2014 Our second small-scale biogas build in Turkey, one year after the first one we built with Yaşat Hacıbaloğlu. The network of youth interested in biogas grows ever stronger and brighter. Things have been stalled here in the DIY realm because Youtube is...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
January 16, 2014 We built this Solar CITIES IBC/ARTI Hybrid Biodigester system on January 15th at Kibbutz Lotan after Culhane field tested the new design early in the fall at Mercy College. The new idea was to use buckets for the feed in and slurry out, simulating a...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
January 13, 2014 In 2011, at the end of the Arava Institute Alumni Conference in Aqaba, Jordan, at which T.H. Culhane was the keynote speaker, a team of alumni and Culhane crossed the border to Israel with Arava biogas expert Yair Teller, and built two...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 27, 2013 At the end of my presentation tour for Earth Week, an enthusiastic student who had attended one of my talks, Yaşat Hacıbaloğlu, asked if he could learn how to build a home biodigester. Since I had a “day off” where Bosch/National...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 20, 2013 After the midnight build of a Solar CITIES modified ARTI biodigester in Erbil, Kurdistan tonight, during my last night in Iraq with new friends Maw’eid and Bryant and Dave (construction, security and IT professionals), we said prayers in...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 16, 2013 Frank Finver, Victoria Reppert, and a group of folks from the UN, including Chief Humanitarian Officer Karin Mayer, built this ARTI digester in the garden at the Embassy residences. It was used for a workshop and to demonstrate the gas and fertilizer....
