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Biodigesters Built at Sacred Lands

Home Biogas and Solar CITIES water tank biodigester builds at Sacred Lands

May 3, 2017

HomeBiogas representative Tracy Love Tippin and T.H. Culhane along with HomeBiogas Israel made a donation of a HomeBiogas unit to Sacred Lands. They also built a Solar CITIES tank-based system, this time (for the first time since our build in Kayseri Turkey at Eciyes University in December of 2016) using a used pill-shaped water/fuel tank. Now people can see the commercial and DIY systems side by side as they visit this great sustainability space dedicated to understanding and integrating the ancient wisdom of our Native American heritage into modern practice.

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Biogas Education at “Our Permaculture Farm”

Biogas Build at Koreen Brennan’s “Our Permaculture Farm”

April 27, 2017

In Brooksville, Florida we built two biodigesters at Koreen Brennan’s farm called Our Permaculture Farm. First, we assembled the Israel HomeBiogas system she had purchased. On another day we held a workshop during which we built a Solar CITIES floating IBC biodigester. Visitors to Koreen’s permaculture trainings will now have the ability to get hands-on experience with both a commercial family-scale digester that is ISO 9001/9004 and CE listed and can be bought and set up in a few hours and a DIY system that can be made from local materials. A similar educational experience about the different kinds of biodigesters is available at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI).

Our goal is to have “gardens of biodigester possibilities” within an hour’s drive of one another so the public can fill in the gaps once they see how easy it is.

Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) Biodigesters

Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) Biodigesters

February 22, 2017

At the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) across the road from my office at the Patel College of Global Sustainability, T.H. Culhane personally donated, and our students constructed, both a Solar CITIES floating IBC biodigester and my HomeBiogas digester from Israel.  We worked with education leader Ian Reed and high school students from his summer school team. We can now showcase both the DIY digester method and a commercial system side-by-side. This is a great educational opportunity for students and visitors every day.

The original location of the digester was next to the Butterfly Garden. The effluent from the digester caused the Asclepias Milkweed to grow at twice the normal rate to feed the butterfly larvae.  When MOSI closed half of its building, including the garden, we moved the digester out to the parking lot where you can see it today.

You can learn more about this project through this newsclip.

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Solar CITIES’ First HomeBiogas System

October 17, 2016

Dr. Thomas H. Culhane, Professor of Sustainability at the Patel College at USF is now running this Israel HimeBiogas unit for student demonstrations. It is connected to a backyard barbecue. It was inoculated with four boxes of RidX and other commercial septic powders from Home Depot and took five weeks to start making gas. It is fed on grass clippings and food waste.