[Gasification] Recycling wet wastes...

[Thomas Reed]

Dear All:

Fortunately, we have been recycling our human wastes for 50 years in the 
form of Milorganite derived from Milwaukee sewerage,


  Milorganite


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*Milorganite* is a company which produces an organic fertilizer 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer> by the same name. Popularized 
in the United States during the 1940s 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940s> and 1950s 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s>, it consists of processed sludge 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sludge> from the Milwaukee Metropolitan 
Sewerage District 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Metropolitan_Sewerage_District> 
Jones Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Milwaukee 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%2C_Wisconsin>, Wisconsin 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin>. The dried product is roughly 
similar to humus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humus>.

The name Milorganite is a contraction of the phrase /Milwaukee Organic 
Nitrogen/, and was the result of a 1925 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925> naming contest held in National 
Fertilizer Magazine 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Fertilizer_Magazine&action=edit>.




 so we know it can be done for $3/bag at our hardware store. 

With cheap ammonia and fixed nitrogen resulting from low cost natural 
gas maybe it couldn't compete.  But with natural gas at $10/MBtu going 
on $20, it will probably become universal. 

TOM REED    BEF

Dick Gallien wrote:

>Great comment and URL Jeff.  I completely agree with both of you.  I have
>one tourist cabin, where I removed a commercial composting toilet because of
>malfunction and replaced it with an aesthetically pleasing sawdust bucket
>toilet, which so totally blew the minds of some tourists, that they
>forfeited their deposit check and left.  Others were fascinated, as I left a
>copy of Humanure Handbook in the bathroom.  In our out of sight, out of mind
>society, most are totally disconnected with the essential organic cycle,
>like the Mn. state legislature who are spending millions on the turkey
>manure burning plant at Benson, Mn..  Just because corn stalks and crop
>"wastes" as they label it, can be gasified, doesn't mean it contributes to a
>sustainable process.
>
>This started with Jan's "off topic" post.  A stretched analogy would be a
>Gestapo list on "human gassing" and a list member is naive enough to stray
>from efficiency of the process to the inhumanity of the process.
>
>From: "Jeff Davis" >
> Harmon Seaver wrote:
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>>>Sending
>>>kitchen scraps to either the sewage treatment or landfill is absurd,
>>>it's far too valuable to waste.
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>>I would also add that sending the brown smelly stuff to the sewage
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>treatment
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>>plant is absurd, it's also far too valuable to waste. Time to stop
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>flushing
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>>our future down the drain.
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>>http://ersson.sustainabilitylane.com/sawdust.htm
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>Dick Gallien
>22501 East Burns Valley Rd
>Winona MN 55987  [507] 454 3126
>dickgallien at thewinonafarm.com
>www.thewinonafarm.com
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