Here's how sectional title complexes in South Africa could help beat load-shedding

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Sectional title complexes in South Africa could make their own biogas to help beat load-shedding

Of the multitude of crises facing South Africa at the moment, the energy crisis probably receives the most coverage; “load-shedding” is a swear word among South Africans. Other problems, however, are more likely to be top of mind for those directly affected by them.

Millions of South Africans still lack access to basic safe sanitation and, to make matters worse, it is reported that roughly half of the country’s sewerage works fail to treat sewage properly while some 40% are in critical condition. On the opposite end of the digestive tract, South Africans also face soaring food prices, driven in part by record fertiliser prices as the Ukraine conflict affects global supply.
 
To be sustainable humans can’t be pumping excrement like we do currently for all eternity, it needs to re-enter the cycle of life to feed the plants etc as nature intended. This seems like a great option, just as long as your neighbourhood doesn’t smell like a sewage works as a result..
 
This seems like a great option, just as long as your neighbourhood doesn’t smell like a sewage works as a result..
I can’t help but feel that if the smell wasn’t a problem, they would have said so in the article. The silence says it all.
 
Sectional title complexes in South Africa could make their own biogas to help beat load-shedding

Of the multitude of crises facing South Africa at the moment, the energy crisis probably receives the most coverage; “load-shedding” is a swear word among South Africans. Other problems, however, are more likely to be top of mind for those directly affected by them.

Millions of South Africans still lack access to basic safe sanitation and, to make matters worse, it is reported that roughly half of the country’s sewerage works fail to treat sewage properly while some 40% are in critical condition. On the opposite end of the digestive tract, South Africans also face soaring food prices, driven in part by record fertiliser prices as the Ukraine conflict affects global supply.
Beans for dinner, lunch en breakfast for the non old farts foxholing on complexes?
 
I can’t help but feel that if the smell wasn’t a problem, they would have said so in the article. The silence says it all.

From a quick google it seems modern ones make no smell, it’s all contained inside the biogas reactor.
 
To be sustainable humans can’t be pumping excrement like we do currently for all eternity, it needs to re-enter the cycle of life to feed the plants etc as nature intended. This seems like a great option, just as long as your neighbourhood doesn’t smell like a sewage works as a result..
The methane gas produced by biodigesters (CH4), which is largely responsible for the smell from sewage, is the actual product of the digester (from human waste). It is also a greenhouse gas, so burning it is helpful. The gas is used as fuel for a generator and produces carbon dioxide and water.

I definitely see these becoming popular, starting with the landfill projects that are already underway.

Another option is making bio-diesel, with some of the household waste.
 
ShitLight, the electric light powered by your shct. Coming soon.

Funny as that may sound, providing 4MW to BMW's manufacturing plant using biogas? We need more of that.
Soon, we may find ourselves in a state where electricity is produced by your shct.

Beat load-shedding by the lowest form of waste. Shct.
 
most sectional title townhouses are developed by greedy developers. There is hardly any space for such biogas unit.
 
This is where the problem is. You would have to import it from china. Transport costs are the problem.
Where do you get the units suitable for domestic use and what do they cost?
Fauci owns most of these biogas units in china. I would stay clear if I was you, Geoff. I got 2GB of research on this that I can't release due to NDA.
 
ShitLight, the electric light powered by your shct. Coming soon.

Funny as that may sound, providing 4MW to BMW's manufacturing plant using biogas? We need more of that.
Soon, we may find ourselves in a state where electricity is produced by your shct.

Beat load-shedding by the lowest form of waste. Shct.
Hmm the BMW Rosslyn plant signed up for biogas but from feedlot waste (Kanhym?) and crops grown specifically for the digester. Not performing too well I heard. Same with CoCT's Athlone digester using domestic waste; money spent, little gas produced. Should rather have fed Parliament although that would produce mostly hot air.
 
Fauci owns most of these biogas units in china. I would stay clear if I was you, Geoff. I got 2GB of research on this that I can't release due to NDA.
You're a much bigger arsehole than I originally thought.
 
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