Electricity and energy can be very expensive, and power bills eat up a lot of the household budget, and can add up fast. Therefore, building a diy biogas generator as an independent power source on your property, is a much cheaper option than relying on expensive power supply from your local power company.
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Also, a biogas electric generator can keep your home and property fully powered while others in the neighborhood go without power for a time especially after a disaster/emergency situation like damage and outages caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fire, floods etc.
With an excellent, efficient, home-made, Do it yourself type of biogas generator as an independent energy source, you are sure to have a cheaper, safer, and more self reliant way to power your home.
Therefore, what you need is the most efficient home biogas generator building plan and blueprint. Along with the cheapest, available raw materials that you can find in your home, farm, or any hardware store, to build your own independent power source.
What Is A Biogas Generator?
A biogas generator is one of the best, most cost effective, & environmentally sustainable ways to generate power for household consumption. It works by breaking down biomass (plant based material, like vegetables, wood, or animal based material), organic waste, manure, sewage, and other green waste through a process called anaerobic digestion.
Biogas can also be produced through another process called fermentation. Now the breakdown of the biodegradable organic material takes places in a biogas digester tank. This process produces biogas which is then used as the biofuel to generate power for cooking, heating, lights, electronics, and even for transportation purposes.
As a word of caution, don’t try to use processed, non organic foods as the source of biogas fuel, and stay away from using things like rotting meat or dead fish. Instead stick to plant based organic matter and vegetables to get the most out of your biofuel electric generator.
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What is Biogas?
Read below some fun facts about biogas and its composition.
Quick Facts:
- Fact: Biogas is composed of about 60% methane, and about 35% carbon dioxide, with the remaining being nitrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, oxygen, and some impurities.
- Fact: Biogas is a clean burning fuel and is considered climate neutral as it doesn’t contribute to global warming.
- Fact: Food waste such as leftover food scraps, old vegetables, rotten potatoes, used tea bags, leaves, weeds, and even grass clippings from cutting your lawn, can be used as organic waste to be broken down for biogas production.
Biogas Electric Generator in Your Home: What Are the Pros and Cons?
So what are the advantages and disadvantages of a biogas generator? Well, it has a ton of advantages over other kinds of power generators. Namely, that it’s much cheaper, more efficient and very cost effective. It wouldn’t take a lot of money to build a biogas home generator in your property. So it would fall under the category of cheap generators. And in terms of square footage, it doesn’t need much space to occupy once fully built.
Another huge benefit of a biomass generator, (another term for biogas generator), as we mentioned before, is that by having an efficient biogas generator blueprint plan, you can build it yourself at home with readily available raw materials, at a cheap cost, with minimum amount of effort.
It’s very important to remember that the biogas produced by the biogas digester is incredibly flammable. So be sure not to smoke or allow any sort of fire or open flame, such as from candles, matches. If you need light to see when cleaning the tank or adding organic waste/material, then use a flashlight. Open flames or sparks should be avoided near an open biogas digester tank.
Another great advantage of building and owning your own home biogas generator is that your house has a secure, back up source of, in essence, free power from a really cheap generator. By the way, there are other types of cheap organic generators for independent power generation at home, like the prairie generator. A prairie generator review will come later, but for now we are focusing on biogas. They both share similarities. For example, in case of power outages and blackouts because of natural disasters or emergencies, like a blizzard or a storm, your home will still have heat and power, because you have planned for and installed a power source, independent of your local power company’s grid.
Whereas other people without generators and who rely exclusively on the local power company grid, will wind up in the dark and cold if the power gets knocked out. Sometimes waiting for a long time to get the power restored. Meanwhile, you and your family will have heat, power, and peace of mind.
And just in case your neighborhood loses power due to brown outs in the summer, or lightning, tornadoes, flooding, and hurricanes, you’ll still have air conditioning. Plus, all the food in your refrigerator or freezer won’t go bad due to lack of electricity.
Here is a quick rundown/breakdown of the pros and cons of using biogas.
Pros of Biogas:
- Using biogas is cheap, which becomes more and more important as oil and natural gas prices rise each year.
- It can be used in a small scale environment.
- You can get rid of your organic waste for free while generating free power at the same time.
- You can build a biogas generator by yourself at home.
- You can become energy independent, meaning you don’t rely anymore on the local power company.
- Biogas is environmentally friendly and doesn’t contribute to global warming.
- It’s fueled using common and easy to obtain organic matter such as decaying fruits and vegetables, leaves, and grass clippings, all of which generally come free or at a very low price.
- Biogas is a green and renewable source of fuel.
- It can be stored for long periods of time.
- You won’t need to worry about brown outs or power shortages again.
- Requires very low maintenance (my favorite).
- Easy to build and operate.
- Your organic waste is consumed, therefore it can’t be put to other uses such as for compost or fertilizing crops. That’s if you are running a farm.
- Methane can be dangerous to work with, so it’s necessary to keep your generator away from any open flames, or fire, and don’t smoke near it.
- You need to be in a well-ventilated area, or outdoors because of the risk of suffocation due to lack of oxygen.
- May generate power slower than natural gas generators.
Video About DIY Biogas Generator
So if you’re looking for a way to power your home cheaply and cost effectively, and are willing to put some DIY work in, then building a biogas generator in your property is a great way to go. To learn more on how to build your own biogas generator at home and be energy independent, then click this button below.
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