An answer already exists, it is called a methane generator and plans can be
found on the web.
Kevin Pemberton
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 05:19:54 PM you wrote:
> Dear List members,
>
> I am working on a project in Haiti to design and build clean burning cook
> stoves and small scale distilleries, in order to help build a sustainable
> alcohol fuel economy for families in Haiti. I have been working on this
> for some while as a consultant and a Senior Fellow with the Public Private
> Alliance Foundation (www.ppafoundation.org). Our list group usually
> focuses on Electric boats I am writing to invite you to get involved in an
> important project where your support
> http://www.gofundme.com/Safe-Cooking-in-Haiti could really make a
> difference.
> The project's aim is to help Haitians exit the poverty-respiratory
> disease-deforestation trap that their dependence on cooking with charcoal
> represents. We seek to reduce the demand for charcoal (that has led to 98%
> deforestation of the country), ensure farmers a better market for their
> sugarcane and other crops, create jobs for both men and women through
> making and selling cookstoves and fuel, and establishing small-scale
> distilleries with community groups nation wide.
> How YOU can help.
>
> Financial support -- We are raising funds for the initial manufacture of
> simple, cheap ethanol-burning stoves. These will be made in Haiti by a
> Haitian firm that is already successful in making and selling other
> varieties of cookstoves. For more information and to make a donation,
> please visit www.gofundme.com/safe-cooking-in-Haiti
> http://www.gofundme.com/safe-cooking-in-Haiti .
>
> I will travel to Haiti at the end of September to work with colleagues and
> Haitian counterparts to test and begin manufacture of the ethanol
> cookstove prototype, and to verify acceptability and efficiency of the
> stoves in comparison with charcoal stoves. Also I will review the
> proposed site for a pilot small scale distillery, at a technical school
> close to the stove factory. The ethanol produced from this pilot plant will
> supply a small group of users for testing. After the piloting we intend
> that the school will serve as the training center to educate young women
> and men as brew masters, distillery technicians and sales people. We will
> also reach out to farmers in relation to feedstock issues.
> The collaborating Haitian company is a social enterprise. A portion of
> sales will be retained by the distributors, mainly women, and the rest
> returned to the manufacturer to enable more production and additional
> project development.
> On behalf of the project team, I thank you for your generous support and
> for your continued contributions to this forum. Keep in mind that
> together we can all make a difference – in our own lives and in the lives
> of millions of others less fortunate. Thank you.
> Your Ethoholic Friend,
>
>
> TomS
>
>
Posted by: Kevin Pemberton <pembertonkevin@gmail.com>
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