[Digestion] United States biogas office

[Tom Miles]

Warren,

What you suggest would require a political constituency in this country. EPA
would not likely get involved in individual digesters unless there was a
legal sanitation issue. EPA or even local departments of environmental
quality would not get involved in individual digesters unless there was a
legal sanitation issue or they were moved by legislation to do so. Agencies
would probably require you to demonstrate that individual digesters for
human waste do not increase health risk. They'll want to see a sophisticated
health risk analysis based on significant volumes of test data using EPA
standard methods.      

The EPA Agstar program and Biocycle magazine have done a good job of
reporting information about digesters and pointing to, if not providing,
sources of information over the years. It's hard to imagine farm scale or
municipal projects that have not been reported in these sites and
publications.

Tom    
    

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[mailto:digestion-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Robert Taylor
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 9:40 PM
To: Warren Weisman; digestion at listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Digestion] United States biogas office

Hi Warren

Does the Chinese biogas office have a website?

Robert Taylor

> Hi, Tom, 
> 
> My thinking was something along the lines of what is
> done in China, with a central government biogas office
> that disseminates information out to branches building
> digesters in the countryside. Their organization is a
> thing of beauty and the reason for China being the
> world leader in residential biogas. They send groups
> to train villagers how to construct a pretty standard
> pit-type 10 cu.m. digester.