Have a friend who years ago got into that. He built a whole big
production machine where you dump the food waste in one end which
ground it up and mixed with cow sh*t then transported it up into
a hopper which distributed it onto a series of belts with a
slight downward slope. There were something like 7 or eight belts
one above the other one each side. The belts moved very slow it
took something like 4-5 days to go from the top to the bottom. At
the bottom what was left fell off and got separated into worms
and worm castings. There was no uneaten waste left. The worms
were sold for fishing and the rest for gardens. Once the whole
thing was started it was self sustaining as most of the worms
kept eating and traveling upward into the new food upslope. The
few that didn't were fish food. The only problem he had was
finding enough waste to put into the input end. After proofing it
and showing that it worked he sold the patent for a good bundle.
Also sold some to a collective in China and went over there to
help them build it and get it going. They never paid him just
told him to sue them which by the time it went through the courts
over there they had claimed bankruptcy, closed the place down
moved all the machinery to someplace else and started again under
a new name. Told him that they could do that as long as he wanted
to waste money trying to sue them. He saw the light and gave up.
Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Worm castings are big business and *shouldn't* be too labor intensive but you
need a good system thats well thought out. The smart folks use trays the worms
migrate through. So as the food is consumed they move down, you harvest that
tray, reload and place it at the bottom. I think its top down but it could be
the other way, its been awhile since I looked into it.
Compost is way easier, make a big pile of food waste mixed with wood chips.
Cover it all in a couple inches of chips, turn every couple days. It only makes
a smell for an hour or two while you're turning. Someday if we move up north
full time I'll look into something like that, not for commercial purposes, just
to compost a large garden. Let the lawn service guys dump their grass clippings
and the tree service guys dump tree trimmings, mix, wait and spread in the
garden.I do this on a very small scale now, We produce 4-5 cubic feet of
compost a year which is limited mostly by the fact that we don't eat that much.
I've tried to get the neighbor to put his food waste in but he can't be
bothered.
-Curt
From: Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Cc: Floyd Thursby <buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Renewable Energy project in Utah
Where the insinkerator and treatment works take the place of the human
or bovine or pig or whatever.
A buddy of mine allowed some dudes to set up a [food waste --> worm
sh*t] operation wherein they were collecting food waste from some
restaurants and dumping it out and then seeding it with worms then
collecting the worm emissions to sell. I met the guys a few years back,
they were kinda neo-hippies with this whack scheme and I think they
actually did it for awhile and sold a few bags of wormsh*t to gardeners
(it was not cheap) but then lost interest in the labor-intensiveness and
abandoned the pile of rotting food waste (including worms too I guess)
on the farm, which was quite fragrant for awhile.
He also now has a herd of water buffaloes that he inherited due to a
similar scheme to make mozzarella cheese, the story of the whole ongoing
debacle is about the funniest thing I have ever heard.
--FT
On 6/16/17 8:21 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote:
a sewage plant with giant insinkerators to feed into it.
Meade Dillon via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
June 16, 2017 at 6:36 AM
http://www.sltrib.com/news/5398548-155/new-utah-facility-will-be-able
It doesn't look like this will generate revenue, will be interesting
to see
how it turns out.
"North Salt Lake • State and local officials broke ground for Utah's
first
food digester Thursday morning in a project aimed at reducing landfill
waste and harnessing unused renewable energy.
The North Salt Lake facility, to be opened in late 2018, will deploy
anaerobic digesters to grind and liquify food waste, then use water,
heat
and bacteria to convert it into methane gas to be used as natural gas
and
bio-solids to be converted into fertilizer."
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Max
Charleston SC
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