jean pain DVD/ Video

[markey]

Hello, does anyone know where I might find a copy of the Jean Pain Video or DVD or the book he produced ( Another Kind of Garden)? Preferably in English!!
Thanks, mark

[Caldo]

Save trees and the postmans legs..

Part One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHRvwNJRNag&feature=related

Part Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCj7NA0OIs&feature=related

[billi]

I have it  and you can get it here

http://www.jean-pain.com/index1.htm

Actually cannot tell you if it is French or English ( my dad has it captured )  (both interesting foreign languages to me  )

Billi

[markey]

Thanks, went to the web page but could not find link to buying the film or book. I live in Spain and would like to show the DVD at a public meeting on energy in October and am prepared to pay for the >DVD /Video if you have a copy. Thanks, mark

[KenB]

Caldo,

Thanks for the link to the fascinating video. To think this was 30 years ago, and even then Jean Pain was talking about sustainable energy and agriculture.

Unfortunately Britain and Europe have had 30 years of cheap energy from the North Sea, and this has effectively suppressed any research into viable alternatives.  Britain is really dragging its heels in this area.

His investment of 500 litres of fuel, plus about 1 weeks wages for his team, yields a bio-energy pile that can produce more than 10,000 litres of fuel equivalent.  That sounds like an EROEI of better than 20:1, which is a superior ratio to most of the current crude oil production.

His 40 tonne / 80 cubic metre stack is producing about 12kW peak of heat (for 18 months) - replacing 4000 litres of heating oil (40,000 kWh)  though I suspect the pile runs on average at about 3 - 6kW heat output otherwise the figures don't add  up.

Sufficient methane to replace 5000 litres of road fuel  (about 50,000 kWh) should also make the pound signs light up in most peoples eyes.

The question is whether this technique is down-scaleable, could you for example make one about 1/20th of the size and more suited to domestic (home) production?   

Could you possibly make a 2 metre cube from 16 old pallets, lined with a tarpaulin or butyl rubber liner and make a small pile?  This might be sufficient to offset 200 litres of heating oil (or gas) and provide daily hot water plus sufficient methane for cooking, and possibly running a small genny.


Ken