MOTHER's Methane Maker Meets The Media

By the Mother Earth News editors

Now the only trouble with this digester was the fact that the fellow who spent so much time telling everyone what a great welder he was . . . really wasn't at all. The digestion unit—and its water jacket—leaked like the proverbial sieve, in other words, the instant we tried to put the waste disposal plant into operation . . . and we were forced to shelve the whole project until the spring of 1973.

Dick Shuttleworth has now completely redesigned and rebuilt the bio-gas unit, however, and it works like a charm. After only a single loading of cow manure in midJuly, the digester is still producing an average of 41 cubic feet of exceptionally high-quality methane at this writing (mid-November). Which is to say that MOTHER's bio-gas plant is working better in nearly all respects than everyone predicted. MORE »