heating/wood chips alternative

[toprotter]

Was reading an earlier thread and thought maybe some of you may be interested in Jean Payne......

 

He was a french forester who instead of burning wood chip utilised the heat fom the bacterial break down in big piles to heat his house and even produced gas wich he collected in rubber inner tubes to run his 2cv and cook with......

 

check him out on utube you will even get to see loads of hippies in a chain feeding his home made chipper and you wouldnt want to fall in that baby !

 

I am a techno phobe so I cant give you a link but utube Jean Payne and take a look

[John Barleycorn]

As I understand it you need at least two heaps of composting woodchip a minimum of three metres high each.

You have to time the building of them such that as your first passes its peak heating, the second one kicks in in order to give you a continuous supply of heated water.

Probably need a front end loader, unless you want to shovel it by hand.

And apparently the heaps produce some nasty niffs in their later stages of composting. Not forgetting of course that for reasons of efficiency its best to have them right next to your house.

[log supplier]

Probably need a front end loader, unless you want to shovel it by hand.

And apparently the heaps produce some nasty niffs in their later stages of composting. Not forgetting of course that for reasons of efficiency its best to have them right next to your house.

 

plenty of nasty pongs if its left to long, not to mention the little beastys crawling about in the wood chip:thumbdown: