[Digestion] United States biogas office

[Warren Weisman]

Tom, 

My residential biogas grant through the EPA Region 10
was not funded---it was 5th and they only funded the
top 4---but the head of the selection committee called
us and informed us they never had a grant cause so
much controversy and discussion more. It was not
funded because so many members of the committee were
unfamiliar with biogas. 

I have no doubts about a good working relationship
with the EPA---at least with Region 10---or with being
able to scientifically prove the safety of effluent.
The primary investigator on my EPA grant, William
Klausmerier, Ph.D. is a biochemist and would like to
be involved in more biogas experiments. The University
of Oregon and Lane Community College are also very,
very open to a partnership and more biogas research. 

Warren  

--- Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

> 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    
>     
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: digestion-bounces at listserv.repp.org
> [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. 
> 
> 
> 



       
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