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"Zabaleen" is the Arabic term for those visionary and enterprising people whose culture revolves around recycling. The Zabaleen are experts at "transforming one man's garbage into another man's gold" and aspire toward a net zero-waste economy. Applied and supported this could lead to true energy independence, not only by radically reducing our demand for "raw materials" and hard to extract natural resources but by recycling other less obvious phenomena and materials that are now wasted.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Psychrophile preliminary results

Interestingly, only the psychrophilic digestors (HDPE design #'s 1 and 4 and telescoping design #7) are producing gas; all the others with mesophiles (even the mixes) have stopped. Could temperature explain this? Meanwhile, we built a system for Harbor Pizza today that we will deliver tomorrow and load with effluent from the producing reactors.

February 16 at 8:16am ·

Further meanwhile, Iran continues to enrich fuel for another kind of reactor... can we convince them to apply their expertise to biogas instead?

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The Zabaleen ethic

There is no such thing as "garbage". Nothing should be wasted. A Zabaleen looks around him or her and asks, "what new use or value can I find in this object, this environment, this moment." The Zabaleen ethic, if properly applied and supported, could lead to true energy independence by making use not only of what we traditionally call "trash" but of other wasted commodities: embedded solar radiation found in light, heat, wind, hydrological cycles, geothermal mass and biomass and from the synergistic behavior of microbes, plants, fungi and non-human animals. We can all be Zabaleen...

Energy Independence

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Psychrophile preliminary results

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