Guest guest Posted June 8, 1998 Report Share Posted June 8, 1998 > Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, > > On returning from Italy and Croatia recently, and having a calor gas > (PROPANE) car conversion completed we discovered that you can in fact also > run cars on METHANE. This sells in Italy for about a quarter of the price > of petrol and can be derived from human effluent, cow dung and methane > natural gas. > You need a heavier tank in the car as the gas has to be more highly > pressurised. > From the hermetically sealed tanks, similar to those of a gobar plant, the > gas is taken and pressurised into a large holding tank. > You need pumping eaquipment and presurizing eqipment and the METHANE can > be used for street lighting and non-polluting fuel. > > If the number of visitors to Mayapur are indeed imminent fuel WILL be > cheap! and ISKCON could open its first gas station! > The resultant residue (which I beleive may have lost much of its > un-pleasant aroma) can then be composted with other city organic wastes > and returned to the land. > > Your servant, > > Radha Krsna das. I would like to find out how they process the human effluent in Italy. In Delhi, Sulabh international have a public toilet which produces methane which they use to run a gernerator and to fire gas lights and cook. But it is a bit of a scam because they only fire the generator to impress visitors, same with the gas lights. When we went there they told us that they use the gas to cook for all their staff, then we mentioned that we saw most eating with tiffins, and they said 'well not full meals' when questioned more it turned out they make tea for them once a day. In such systems you can only use 1 litre of water to flush and clean. In the sulabh facility they give you a litre can of water so it is controlled. But unless you have fully manned facilities it wont work. Can you find out what the Italian system is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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