Converts all organic material and waste to methane leaving potable water

[triffid]

Sorry,methane is not lighter than air.Hydrogen and helium are lighter than air.Air is a mixture mostly of oxygen and nitrogen and the other one percent being other gases.But "hot air" is lighter than "cold air" and therefore will float a balloon under the right conditions.Triffid

[exxcomm0n]

@ Cap

Still an interesting idea and I might be able to drum up business for such a product, but the storage of methane still remains an issue.

I think triffid said something about 1000 PSI compression necessary for liquification, and the amount of energy necessary for that might be prohibitive to practical use for heating/cooking.

Maybe there is a way like using metal hydrides for storing hydrogen that would be mo' bettah?

Something like:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220132230.htm

(I just like the corn cob angle in this story. There are other methodologies it seems).

I'd have to do more research into what ever happened to the tech (story is from 2007), that I'm not yet at liberty to persue that.

Get something going as well in the area of storage of the resulting gas and this guy will have a hard time keeping up production of the stuff.

I would still like to register my interest in the distributorship possibilities without that (storage) being addressed yet.

There's some crafty farmers out there.

[Cap-Z-ro]

That seems to be the ideal storage method for methane excomm.

Appears to be a perfect marriage of technologies.

More info on the process is definitely needed.

Regards...

[nueview]

i think that methane can be stored in ice and it doesn't have to be all that cold but needs to be under pressure and as the ice is warmed it releases the methane it would be pretty safe as it would have limited burn that you sould control.

[gsmsslsb]

Sorry,methane is not lighter than air.Hydrogen and helium are lighter than air.Air is a mixture mostly of oxygen and nitrogen and the other one percent being other gases.But "hot air" is lighter than "cold air" and therefore will float a balloon under the right conditions.Triffid

Actually I am pretty sure that mwthane does float in air as it is CH4 which is 4 hydrogen to each carbon.
Also we used to own a methane digester which we used to produce fuel for all our vehicles and tractors and when we were kids we could go to the filling station and get our balloons filled and they would rise out of site in the air.