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Anyone with experience of turning poinsettia, begonia and chrysanthemum waste (cuttings) into biogas?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Thanks </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Vianney</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Vianney Tumwesige <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trustvianney@gmail.com" target="_blank">trustvianney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Greetings, <div><br></div><div>Anyone with experience of turning poinsettia, begonia and chrysanthemum waste (cuttings) into biogas?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks </div><div><br></div><div>Vianney</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:11 AM, David House <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@h4c.org" target="_blank">david@h4c.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Vianney Tumwesige<br><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div><div>PhD student <br></div><div>University of Aberdeen</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Vianney Tumwesige<br><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div><div>PhD student <br></div><div>University of Aberdeen</div>
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