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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ken,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/8/2014 7:05 PM, Ken Miller wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Greetings,</p>
<p dir="ltr">This is my first posting on this site. Does anyone
on this list have experience using woochips in an anaerobic
digester?</p>
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Generally speaking, it won't work; too much lignin. And of course
the C/N will be unfavorable without quite a bit of N from somewhere.
Some woods are toxic to the process besides.<br>
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Indeed, my latest digester design has a 2x4 skeleton/scaffold inside
the digester.<br>
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<div style="padding-left:3em;font-size:80%;">"The Complete
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<div style="padding-left:2em;">"Make no search for water.
But find thirst,<br>
And water from the very ground will burst."
<div style="padding-left:2em;font-size:80%;">(Rumi, a Persian
mystic poet, quoted in <em>Delight of Hearts</em>, p. 77)<br>
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