In Fact a biogas system was the first renewable energy solution I implemented and used for my daily life. I found a very short book on how to make natural gas from biomass, and managed to read the whole thing waiting in line at the DMV. I left the DMV a changed person; in the same day I picked up a used 55 gallon drum, a trailer load of cow manure and mixed up a slurry. The next day I figured out the plumbing to fill up a tractor inner tube and adapt a propane camp stove to run on biogas. I cooked my breakfast every morning for months on this system.

After enough renewable energy projects accumulated at my house, I was encouraged to find a larger more suitable location to experiment. I landed free rent at an abandoned grain silo next to the train tracks in Asheville NC. The first thing I did was secure the building and installed a bank of 6 x 300 gallon IBCs as biogas digesters. Being only 20 years old I had a lot to learn about... everything. After spending a year figuring out material processing and finally getting  my product tested for agronomic value, it turned out that the "owner" was in fact a con man working for the actual property owner. When things weren't working out between them anymore my entire operation got sent to the scrapyard one weekend without notice.

After some reflection on my experience I decided that I should not attempt such lofty projects alone, its all about the team you have. So I went back to college and co-founded a motorcycle studio for a few years while working on a patent for a photovoltaic solution that came out of installing panels on my site. See Novel 2 Axis Solar Array - Patented for more information. In the meantime, biogas is a tool I keep in my arsenal for designing regenerative, integrated resource management regimes.