Projects and Workshops Completed
Biodigester Build in Slovakia
September 25, 2011 We completed a 3 IBC Solar CITIES Biodigester build in the mountain village of Zazriva in Slovakia with the Catholic Youth Group, "Dobrej Noviny". After completing the build, we put everything on a trailer and brought it to the home of one of the...
Sacred Heart Hospital Abeokuta, Nigeria
August 30, 2011
Biogas at Bells School in Nigeria
August 30, 2011 At the end of the summer of 2011, Culhane was joined by Ohio State University Urban Planning Professor Charisma Acey and Nigerian-German friend Paul Chido Iwunna on a trip to Nigeria, hosted by former President Obasanjo, to spread the "gospel of...
Biogas at a Presidential Residence
August 30, 2011 His Excellency President Oluwasegun Obasanjo graciously invited us to his home to build a biodigester and then brought us around Abeokuta to see his presidential library, farms, industrial operations, plantations and reforestation areas. We also...
Tamera Solar Village, Portugal
August 16, 2011 Read more here.
Biogas Demonstration and Build in Budapest
August 5, 2011 As a result of our Slovakia workshop, we held a biogas building workshop in Budapest, where I demonstrated the Solar CITIES IBC system for colder climates. I enjoyed the crowd sourcing and collective intelligence nature of the participants who came up...
Digesters at the Dream School in Kenya
June 14, 2011 As part of the Blackstone Ranch/National Geographic Innovation Challenge Grant, Culhane returned to Kenya and built digesters at the school of fellow Nat Geo Emerging Explorer Kakenya Ntaiya.
Biogas Collaboration in Kenya
June 14, 2011 Working in partnership with Simama e.V. we built a Solar CITIES enhanced ARTI digester at the Mukuru Arts Academy in Mukuru Slum, Nairobi in 2010. Simama is a German association with a mission of development through the arts. We worked with Mink Noordam...
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies Alumni Conference
February 5, 2011 The Arava Institue for Environmental Studies held its annual alumni conference in Aqaba Jordan. T.H. Culhane was the keynote speaker, and traveled to Aqaba with Amir Rabayah from Engineers Without Borders-Palestine, Yair Teller, the Arava's...
Telescoping Digester in Botswana
August 14, 2010 The Selinda system was sized to accommodate the kitchen waste from a maximum of 16 guests eating four meals a day. Culhane spent two days during a period of full occupancy grinding the waste generated through meal preparation and plate scrapings...
Biogas Experiments in Botswana
August 14, 2010 Yube Boitumelo Siyangaphi, Joseph Kabimba and Kebonyemang Mashabe and I have built a three-stage biodigestor at the worker's camp at CSU base camp at Selinda Wildlife Reserve in Botswana. It consists of a fiberglass-sealed 1,000-liter horizontal...
Zarafa Camp, Okavanga Delta, Botswana
August 14, 2010 As part of the Blackstone Ranch/National Geographic Innovation Challenge Grant he received, T.H. and Sybille Culhane traveled with their two-year-old son, Kilian, to the Okavanga delta to experiment with building biogas systems out of local water tanks...
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