Alternative Energy Thread

**edtf** · December 5th, 2007 03:27 PM

This is getting to be interesting!! Sir ssalonga can I get the contact details of the the indian firm who does the motorcycle conversion. If this would be viable then my farm might be lpg powered by next year.

**webmiester** · December 5th, 2007 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by ghosthunter

Would it be cost effective? Comparing the cost of fuel against the price of electricity?

For farm use, the technology which interests me is biogas powered gen sets. Itl convert your pig and cow manure into electricity

The inquirer once featured a farm that does this.

**edtf** · December 5th, 2007 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by ghosthunter

Would it be cost effective? Comparing the cost of fuel against the price of electricity?

From what I remembered before was it would be cheaper for you to produce your own electricity - some factories do it. BUT for me my farm has no electricity makes it more viable for me

**edtf** · December 5th, 2007 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by webmiester

For farm use, the technology which interests me is biogas powered gen sets. Itl convert your pig and cow manure into electricity

The inquirer once featured a farm that does this.

problem with methane is you can't compress it so and I think you need a certain pressure to feed it to the engine plus they omitted one part - the cost to convert the genset for methane and another thing is we don't have animals in our farm - it is all plants

**webmiester** · December 6th, 2007 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by edtf

problem with methane is you can't compress it so and I think you need a certain pressure to feed it to the engine plus they omitted one part - the cost to convert the genset for methane and another thing is we don't have animals in our farm - it is all plants

Yeah, that's understandable. This is the reason so few people actually use methane. What kind of plants do you have, may I ask?

**edtf** · December 6th, 2007 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by webmiester

Yeah, that's understandable. This is the reason so few people actually use methane. What kind of plants do you have, may I ask?

We have biogas naman at my uncles piggery and methane is truly great - flame is nearly invisible - clean burning talaga.

more on Calamansi and coffee, and a little of other fruit trees like lansones, rambutan, marang, etc etc. Hopefully, next rainy season I would be planting suha and dalandan and I'm getting into veggies too PLUS hopefully if budget permits I want goats too. - dami plano kno. Farm is in Sampaloc Tanay. No roads, no electricty for the time being.

**webmiester** · December 8th, 2007 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by edtf

We have biogas naman at my uncles piggery and methane is truly great - flame is nearly invisible - clean burning talaga.

more on Calamansi and coffee, and a little of other fruit trees like lansones, rambutan, marang, etc etc. Hopefully, next rainy season I would be planting suha and dalandan and I'm getting into veggies too PLUS hopefully if budget permits I want goats too. - dami plano kno. Farm is in Sampaloc Tanay. No roads, no electricty for the time being.

Wow! Tanay, as in Rizal, Tanay? Cool! Are we growing marang, and rambutan na in Luzon?

My family has a small farm in Mindanao. Its mostly palm oil so as I understand, we burn the palm fruit kernel residue for energy. Sayang nga I would like to harness it sana for electricity

Yeah, I guess and LPG powered genset tatagal considering its mostly used at night lang naman. Then you can have a curfew up to a certain time of the night only before the lights go off.

**edtf** · December 8th, 2007 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by webmiester

Wow! Tanay, as in Rizal, Tanay? Cool! Are we growing marang, and rambutan na in Luzon?

My family has a small farm in Mindanao. Its mostly palm oil so as I understand, we burn the palm fruit kernel residue for energy. Sayang nga I would like to harness it sana for electricity

Yeah, I guess and LPG powered genset tatagal considering its mostly used at night lang naman. Then you can have a curfew up to a certain time of the night only before the lights go off.

Sorry ha para sa OT :D - yup Sampaloc Tanay is near Erap's place

You would be surprised madaming na marang, durian, mangosteen,
suha na growing in the Laguna area.

Yup, night time and few times in the day to pump up water

**ssalonga** · December 14th, 2007 04:42 PM

edtf,

hi! I thought you might enjoy looking through a catalog of alternative power options for farms/rural residences......

http://www.jatsgreenpower.com/aeg200...talog-JATS.pdf

cool stuff esp. in Tanay. How is the wind power over there?

regards,

steve

**edtf** · December 14th, 2007 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by ssalonga

edtf,

hi! I thought you might enjoy looking through a catalog of alternative power options for farms/rural residences......

http://www.jatsgreenpower.com/aeg200...talog-JATS.pdf

cool stuff esp. in Tanay. How is the wind power over there?

regards,

steve

Well wind will just give you power for 4 months in a year - what I wanted was solar power but after studying it - it seems like it wasn't that feasible - masyadong mahal to start it up