by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
January 16, 2010 At the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010, the Culhanes joined Dr. Katey Walter Anthony and her husband Peter Anthony and high school science teacher Adam Low in Alaska. There they built an experimental biogas set up in a 40 ft. conex container in the...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
December 5, 2009 In late 2009, after developing our Solar CITIES IBC-based biogas system in Cairo, Egypt in anticipation for building in cold climates, we went to Alaska to experiment with psychrophilic microbial biodigesters in IBC tanks. Read more about the project...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
May 12, 2009 At the Sekem Farm and Science School outside of Cairo, Egypt Thomas Culhane, Hanna Fathy and Solar CITIES intern Mike Rimoin deployed their invention of the open-source solar heated three IBC Solar CITIES biodigester. This is perhaps the first use of...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
May 5, 2009 This system is built from three identical IDB tote HDPE tanks. To the rear, one can just make out the biodigester itself. The top of the digester is connected by 1/2 inch clear plastic tubing to the top-side of the water displacement tank (WDT) . Water...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
March 7, 2009 This is where it all began for us, building ARTI-style digesters in the impoverished areas of Darb Al Ahmar and Manshiyet Nasser in Cairo, Egypt in early 2009.
