by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | North America, Our Projects
August 16, 2014 On a trip to Mexico, Rotoplas engineers surprised Culhane with a Solar CITIES-style modified ARTI digester. They had built the digester in anticipation of his visit. The digester included “microbial motels” to increase surface area....
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 7, 2014 A couple of years ago a young man named Jorma Gorns from the Gymnasium Altenholz in Kiel, northern Germany, wrote Solar CITIES a letter asking if it would be possible to intern with us on some project around the world. A year later he took the...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Our Projects, South America
August 6, 2014 Basic training opportunities in small scale biogas build confidence and familiarity with biogas before launching into a larger community-size builds. Our Facebook group “Solar CITIES Biogas Innoventors and Practitioners” encourages people...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Our Projects, South America
August 6, 2014 When the pours were finished in Niteroi, T.H., Jorma and the local team from Niteroi took the molds by pick-up truck to the rainforest Favela, “Vale Encantado”. They worked with Theresa Williamson and Catalytic Communities, an NGO that...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Our Projects, South America
July 25, 2014 Solar CITIES intern Jorma Gorns joined T.H. Culhane on a project bringing Puxin 10m3 biodigester molds to sites in Rio De Janeiro. The initial work was done by Solar Cities Solution’s Biogas Education team members T.H. Culhane, Yair Teller,...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
July 1, 2014 The project in Al Najaf, Iraq was run by our member Taha Majeed Lafta, a chemical engineer from the Ministry of Science & Technology, Directorate of Renewable Energy. T.H. Culhane made a trip to Iraq in the Spring of 2013 sponsored by the US Embassy...
