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| joshagrady:
--- Quote from: Blade on April 14, 2011, 02:16:13 PM ---Those are cool generators. My wife and I raise miniature horses and when I saw those I thought it would be cool to build a way to produce methane gas from the manure to run one of those generators with. --- End quote --- If the horses are small enough, maybe you could just make a gerbil wheel contraption and generate some energy that way. :lol: |
| BiggerHammer:
--- Quote from: Blade on April 14, 2011, 02:16:13 PM ---Those are cool generators. My wife and I raise miniature horses and when I saw those I thought it would be cool to build a way to produce methane gas from the manure to run one of those generators with. --- End quote --- It is VERY easy to build an anaerobic digester that will produce methane from manure. I am unsure of the size needed for your application or how much ummm lets call it feedstock you would need to add daily to maintain a constant gas volume to run the generator. It should be feasible to do that. Provided of course you have a sufficient number of horses to provide enough poo-gas to run the generator. If you do this please let us know. Talk about a :proj:. |
| Blade:
I think I will build a large gerbil wheel :nrocks: it would only have to be about 8 feet tall for most of our horses to fit :lol:. I have researched digesters, if I could generate enough methane to run a regular generator that would be the easiest way because I already have one. I think the price of the stirling units is high so I don't know if it would be worth it. |
| BiggerHammer:
So, if your horses were say.... about 25% the size of a regular horse would they be considered a quarter-horse? Also would they generate a quarter horspower? :lol: |
| Joules:
Does that mean a 3 legged horse generates fractional horse power ? J |
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