Blog #6 August 26, 2009

The Genset Room in C Barn is coming along in its final phases of deconstruction, with the interior walls removed and the floor washed, just a small tidy up effort needed until that section is ready to be rebuilt.

Outside of the barn, the lid was poured onto the F.O.G. tank and near that, the foundation has been poured for the pasteurizer container. Photos of the progress can be in the Biogas Project tab, under Biogas 8. In these photos, Barry Bender Excavation Company is digging in preparation to pour the foundation for a 100 foot digestate tank. The re-bar for the foundation is being put in this morning by the company Cronin. Cronin is the company specializing in concrete pouring of large manure storage tanks, and are working on building this new digestate tank, and they were the company that built the existing manure storage tank nearby.

The results of last Thursdays thunder storm and rain left us with hours of water pumping on Friday, and a very muddy job.

This video on YouTube shows how the Stahlbush Island Farms became self sufficient in their energy needs to run the entire farm. They are using vegetable and plant waste that normally goes unused, to generate their own heat for water and seed drying, steam for plant care, and energy to power the farm. The video shows the digestate tank and how it looks when full of digestate, as well a generalview of the Genset and the electrical setup.