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better pics on other web-site. Jean Pain: France's King of Green Gold , By Nicolas Poulain(From: Reader's Digest -- Nov 1981 pages 76-81) jeanpaio.jpg
an amazingly simple, and incredibly inexpensive system that extracts both energy and fertilizer (gold) from plant life (green). Says Andre Birre, author of Humus: Wealth and Health of the Earth, concerning the Pain method : "We are so hypnotized by the black gold we call oil, of which the supply is limited, that we fail to see that everyone can exploit that other gold -humus- not only without exhausting the supply, but increasing it."
He accompanies me to about 50 metres from the front door and shows me the object of the world's attention -- a home-made power plant that supplies 100 per cent of the Pains' energy needs. What I see is a mound, three metres high and six across, made of tiny pieces of brushwood. (1m=39in.)
This vegetable mix, Pain explains, made of tree limbs and pulverized underbrush, is a compost, much like the pile of decaying organic matter that people build in their gardens, using food scraps and leaves. Buried inside the 50-ton compost, is a steel tank with a capacity of four cubic metres. It is three-fourths full of the same compost, which has first been steeped in water for 2 months. The tank is hermetically sealed, but is connected by tubing to 24 truck-tyre innertubes, banked nearby in piles. The tubes serve as a reservoir for the methane gas produced as the compost ferments.
"Once the gas is distilled, washed through small stones in water -- and compressed," Pain explains, "we use it to cook our food, produce our electricity and fuel our truck." He says that it takes about 90 days to produce 500 cubic metres of gas-- enough to keep Ida's two ovens and a three-burner stove going for a year. Leading to a room behind the house, he shows me the methane-fuelled internal combustion engine that turns a generator, producing 100 watts every hour. This charges an accumulator battery, which stores the current, providing all the Pains need to light their five-room house.
As Ida drives off in their truck, I see on th roof 2 gas bottles shaped like long cannon shells. These have a capacity of five cubic metres of compressed gas, allowing her to drive 100 kilometres. Jean says that ten kilos of brush-wood supply the gas equivalent of a litre of high-test petrol. All that is needed to use it as motor-fuel is a small carburettor adjustment.
We walk back to the compost. Jean points to a 40mm-thick plastic tube that runs from a well, through the heap and on to a tap inside the house. He says that compost heats as it ferments, raising the temperature so that cold water, arriving from the well after passing through 200m of tubing wound round the tank, emerges at 60 degrees C. I personally confirm that the water arrives cold at the "cake" and comes out scalding. Once inside the house, the hot water circulates through radiators and heats the house. The compost heap continues fermenting for nearly 18 months, supplying hot water at a rate of 4 litres a minute, enough to satisfy the central heating, bathroom and kitchen requirements. Then the installation is dismantled and a new compost system is set up at once to assure a continuous supply of hot water.
Gigantic Growth: The inert, brushwood compost now provides Pain with still another use. Once fermentation ends, the big, magic cake produces no more energy, but it will still render 50 tons of natural fertilizer. By spreading a layer of this humus on the poor, stony soil around the house, Jean Pain has created a rich farm garden where even tropical vegetables grow. I admire tomato plants 2 metres high, lift a 6-kilo watermelon and inspect a chayote (a kind of sweet Zucchini - hitherto found only in the West Indies and in Africa), What surprises me most is that these giant vegetables need no watering; all the water need, Pain tells me, is synthesized in the compost.
The smart power-plant took him 15 yrs to figr. lt all started while Pain was gathering brushwood and noticed that wherever it was found the vegetation underneath seemed to grow more abundantly. The reason, he learnt, is that as branches, leaves and shrubs decompose they form the nutritious humus that enriches the earth. To imitate nature and produce humus, he thought, we could trim excess undergrowth from the forests. Then perhaps we could capture the energy produced by the fermentation that transforms this brushwood into humus.Discovery, jp-diget.jpg How th Jean Pain process works.
Jean Pain has no diploma; but he is intelligent, highly adaptable and keenly observant. And starting in 1965, he red dozens of books and carryied out his first experiments. He began by fermenting the brushwood cuttings as he brought them in, but soon realized that fermentation would be more efficient if the bigger boughs were chopped up as finely as possible. No machine for this existed, so he made one, building it with spare parts.
The meaning of Pain's discovery is big. What it means, to Pain, is that forests can become mans 21st-century "guardian angels."
The stakes are hi, France imports 126 million tons of oil annually, throwing their balance of payments seriously off the mark, French forests constitute an energy back-up equal to 20 million tons of oil (TEP).
Pain has taken the costs of his method into account. He has gone over and over his figures: 1,000 hectares of forest can supply 6,000 tons of fertilizer a year, 960,000 cu. of biogas (or 480,000 litres oil equivalent) and millions of litres of hot water. And exploiting the forest costs only 12 per cent of the energy extracted from it, and, the cycle can be repeated ever as brushwood is renewed every seven years. Thus, not only would the forest remain clean and free from the danger of fire, but would provide an
renewing supply of fertilizer and thermal-energy.
In France, eight municipalities have chosen to adopt his techniques for recycling vegetation and supplying heat and hot water to public buildings, hot-houses and sports facilities.
"In Sainpuits (Yonne), a village of 500, we heat several buildings with the object of proving the value of the system," began to use Jean Pain's method in January 1980. A 200-cubic-metre compost bed, made of broken wood from plane trees and lime trees, will supply 23,400 kilocalories an hour and heat a 200 square-metre hot-house. Within 2 years, it will be 80 cu.m of humus for the community gardens.
Says Henri Stehle, internationally respected agriculture expert and botanist and Institute of France prize-winner, "At the end of the path Pain has opened, stands tomorrow's self-sufficient agribusiness producing its own fertilizer and the power to run it.Pain's methods are beginning to spread to the rest of Europe. in Belgium, stands a compost plant and a flourishing garden. This is the experiment station of the Jean-Pain Committee, formed in 1978 by Frederik Vanden Brande. Pain has devoted followers in Australia, the United States, Tunis, Latin America and Japan, The book he wrote with his wife, already translated into five languages, has sold 70,000 copies.
International energy-expert Robert Giry, author of Is Nuclear Energy Useless?, predicts: "In our times of crisis, with European agriculture in danger of one day suddenly finding itself deprived of energy, the path opened by Jean Pain for the production of fertilizer, fuel and electricity could lead to a brimming future."
commonsense solution: the green gold that's found almost everywhere in the world. Its here, under our feet; we have only to stoop down to gather it.
With thanks to Ramjee Swaminathan See also (in French):www.jean-pain.com
Les broyeurs déchiqueteurs JEAN PAIN valorisation compost bois énergie
The methods of Jean Pain: Or another kind of garden, by Ida and Jean Pain, in English, self-published 1980, 88 pages, pics, out of print, try 2nd-hand
Composting -- The wheel of life, chicken manure fuel (Harold Bate)
Methane Digesters For Fuel Gas and Fertilizer, With Complete Instructions For Two Working Models by L. John Fry, Nepal Biogas-plant construction
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opera-html viewer used to change this htm to the txt u see here.
better pics on other web-site. Jean Pain: France's King of Green Gold , By Nicolas Poulain(From: Reader's Digest -- Nov 1981 pages 76-81) jeanpaio.jpg
an amazingly simple, and incredibly inexpensive system that extracts both energy and fertilizer (gold) from plant life (green). Says Andre Birre, author of Humus: Wealth and Health of the Earth, concerning the Pain method : "We are so hypnotized by the black gold we call oil, of which the supply is limited, that we fail to see that everyone can exploit that other gold -humus- not only without exhausting the supply, but increasing it."
He accompanies me to about 50 metres from the front door and shows me the object of the world's attention -- a home-made power plant that supplies 100 per cent of the Pains' energy needs. What I see is a mound, three metres high and six across, made of tiny pieces of brushwood. (1m=39in.)
This vegetable mix, Pain explains, made of tree limbs and pulverized underbrush, is a compost, much like the pile of decaying organic matter that people build in their gardens, using food scraps and leaves. Buried inside the 50-ton compost, is a steel tank with a capacity of four cubic metres. It is three-fourths full of the same compost, which has first been steeped in water for 2 months. The tank is hermetically sealed, but is connected by tubing to 24 truck-tyre innertubes, banked nearby in piles. The tubes serve as a reservoir for the methane gas produced as the compost ferments.
"Once the gas is distilled, washed through small stones in water -- and compressed," Pain explains, "we use it to cook our food, produce our electricity and fuel our truck." He says that it takes about 90 days to produce 500 cubic metres of gas-- enough to keep Ida's two ovens and a three-burner stove going for a year. Leading to a room behind the house, he shows me the methane-fuelled internal combustion engine that turns a generator, producing 100 watts every hour. This charges an accumulator battery, which stores the current, providing all the Pains need to light their five-room house.
As Ida drives off in their truck, I see on th roof 2 gas bottles shaped like long cannon shells. These have a capacity of five cubic metres of compressed gas, allowing her to drive 100 kilometres. Jean says that ten kilos of brush-wood supply the gas equivalent of a litre of high-test petrol. All that is needed to use it as motor-fuel is a small carburettor adjustment.
We walk back to the compost. Jean points to a 40mm-thick plastic tube that runs from a well, through the heap and on to a tap inside the house. He says that compost heats as it ferments, raising the temperature so that cold water, arriving from the well after passing through 200m of tubing wound round the tank, emerges at 60 degrees C. I personally confirm that the water arrives cold at the "cake" and comes out scalding. Once inside the house, the hot water circulates through radiators and heats the house. The compost heap continues fermenting for nearly 18 months, supplying hot water at a rate of 4 litres a minute, enough to satisfy the central heating, bathroom and kitchen requirements. Then the installation is dismantled and a new compost system is set up at once to assure a continuous supply of hot water.
Gigantic Growth: The inert, brushwood compost now provides Pain with still another use. Once fermentation ends, the big, magic cake produces no more energy, but it will still render 50 tons of natural fertilizer. By spreading a layer of this humus on the poor, stony soil around the house, Jean Pain has created a rich farm garden where even tropical vegetables grow. I admire tomato plants 2 metres high, lift a 6-kilo watermelon and inspect a chayote (a kind of sweet Zucchini - hitherto found only in the West Indies and in Africa), What surprises me most is that these giant vegetables need no watering; all the water need, Pain tells me, is synthesized in the compost.
The smart power-plant took him 15 yrs to figr. lt all started while Pain was gathering brushwood and noticed that wherever it was found the vegetation underneath seemed to grow more abundantly. The reason, he learnt, is that as branches, leaves and shrubs decompose they form the nutritious humus that enriches the earth. To imitate nature and produce humus, he thought, we could trim excess undergrowth from the forests. Then perhaps we could capture the energy produced by the fermentation that transforms this brushwood into humus.Discovery, jp-diget.jpg How th Jean Pain process works.
Jean Pain has no diploma; but he is intelligent, highly adaptable and keenly observant. And starting in 1965, he red dozens of books and carryied out his first experiments. He began by fermenting the brushwood cuttings as he brought them in, but soon realized that fermentation would be more efficient if the bigger boughs were chopped up as finely as possible. No machine for this existed, so he made one, building it with spare parts.
The meaning of Pain's discovery is big. What it means, to Pain, is that forests can become mans 21st-century "guardian angels."
The stakes are hi, France imports 126 million tons of oil annually, throwing their balance of payments seriously off the mark, French forests constitute an energy back-up equal to 20 million tons of oil (TEP).
Pain has taken the costs of his method into account. He has gone over and over his figures: 1,000 hectares of forest can supply 6,000 tons of fertilizer a year, 960,000 cu. of biogas (or 480,000 litres oil equivalent) and millions of litres of hot water. And exploiting the forest costs only 12 per cent of the energy extracted from it, and, the cycle can be repeated ever as brushwood is renewed every seven years. Thus, not only would the forest remain clean and free from the danger of fire, but would provide an
renewing supply of fertilizer and thermal-energy.
In France, eight municipalities have chosen to adopt his techniques for recycling vegetation and supplying heat and hot water to public buildings, hot-houses and sports facilities.
"In Sainpuits (Yonne), a village of 500, we heat several buildings with the object of proving the value of the system," began to use Jean Pain's method in January 1980. A 200-cubic-metre compost bed, made of broken wood from plane trees and lime trees, will supply 23,400 kilocalories an hour and heat a 200 square-metre hot-house. Within 2 years, it will be 80 cu.m of humus for the community gardens.
Says Henri Stehle, internationally respected agriculture expert and botanist and Institute of France prize-winner, "At the end of the path Pain has opened, stands tomorrow's self-sufficient agribusiness producing its own fertilizer and the power to run it.Pain's methods are beginning to spread to the rest of Europe. in Belgium, stands a compost plant and a flourishing garden. This is the experiment station of the Jean-Pain Committee, formed in 1978 by Frederik Vanden Brande. Pain has devoted followers in Australia, the United States, Tunis, Latin America and Japan, The book he wrote with his wife, already translated into five languages, has sold 70,000 copies.
International energy-expert Robert Giry, author of Is Nuclear Energy Useless?, predicts: "In our times of crisis, with European agriculture in danger of one day suddenly finding itself deprived of energy, the path opened by Jean Pain for the production of fertilizer, fuel and electricity could lead to a brimming future."
commonsense solution: the green gold that's found almost everywhere in the world. Its here, under our feet; we have only to stoop down to gather it.
With thanks to Ramjee Swaminathan See also (in French):www.jean-pain.com
Les broyeurs déchiqueteurs JEAN PAIN valorisation compost bois énergie
The methods of Jean Pain: Or another kind of garden, by Ida and Jean Pain, in English, self-published 1980, 88 pages, pics, out of print, try 2nd-hand
Composting -- The wheel of life, chicken manure fuel (Harold Bate)
Methane Digesters For Fuel Gas and Fertilizer, With Complete Instructions For Two Working Models by L. John Fry, Nepal Biogas-plant construction
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