Mahalo for featuring this, Sean, and especially for pointing out the convoluted/inaccurate wording of SSB2583. I'm sure many here have been "bitten on the ass" thinking they were doing the right thing based on that wording, only to find out the hard way they were wrong. Things need to change here in Hawaii, (and elsewhere) if we want to save the planet, and this is just another way to take back control of responsibly dealing with our waste. Products and concepts like this are the future, instead of throwing away our hard-earned dollars on outdated, inefficient, and harmful septic systems just to satisfy bureaucrats and pad the pockets of septic installers.
I watched an Australian guy make one. He used ibc containers. He used kitchen waste but I knew you could do the humanure. Both are an excellent way to use wastes. Yay more people are doing this.
8:11 If you're going to heat your water with biogas, you should preheat the water through compost Compost pile is about 145° in the center so all you have to do is coil tubing inside of a framework and then dump your stuff in there to compost, that water will be hotter than you want to shower with before it even hits your water heater.. and we all know water heaters don't turn on unless the water is cold enough
I just got one of those a couple weeks ago but haven't set it up yet. Just learning about it and curious about that tankless water heater, if it needs to be for propane or natural gas? Since the gas nozzles are different sizes. Would like to know how good it will work on the biogas.
As long as your community or municipality allows a composting toilet they should allow this fancy composting toilet. That really is what it is considering the fact that it produces fertilizer. The sandbagged gas is hardly flammable considering the level to which the gas is pressurized. Theoretically yes, it could catch but it has as much probability of catching as untreated raw wood. To make matters simple I would just tell people it is a closed loop no touch advanced composting system… this is NOT a replacement to a septic system. Septic systems are by nature of the word designed to be emptied every few years and as such are not a closed loop. Idk if in certain municipalities it is illegal to use human feces to create fertilizer or not but that again is also debatable given this system can be used solely for the purpose of recycling waste from food scraps. Keep it simple and keep it stupid folks 😉. That way crazy people that try to make your life difficult have a very hard time doing it. Not illegal my friend… just don’t claim it is a septic tank or an alternative to it when it functions extremely differently. A helicopter and a car both drive. However, they are two different devices that have different set of standards and regulation. A fancy compositing system cannot be compared to a septic tank…. Not one and the same at all! Thank you 😊 🙏