This
whole Eagle Farm Eco Centre Village project started as
an idea which grew from an invention of a concept car driven
by Hydrogen – which had zero emissions. This single
concept could go a long way to fix many of the pollution
problems currently troubling our world today.
With my friend, Hans Gygax, I had previously designed
and built a micro light aircraft – so a hydrogen
car looked relatively easy!
Hydrogen is essentially water, therefore fuel cell technology
is basically reverse galvanising – my trade growing
up in Germanywas all about Galvanising.
Water still has its secrets today and does amazing things
for us. I realise it is the key to all natural life: We need
to overcome our human industrial pollution and over-populated
pressure on the planet Earth.
And if we want to change this for tomorrow, we have to start
today:
The realistic first step is here already; a Swiss based company
specialising in bio-gas plants has built a demo plant in
Japan raising interest for more demo plants so that they
can achieve success in Asia as they have in Europe. They
are so confident in their process that they are willing to
help finance this project here on Eagle Farm by entering
a joint venture to manufacture here which will be local for
the Asian market!
This proposed plant at Eagle Farm could produce 5,000 to
10,000 tonnes of bio-gas per year. To find out what this
would mean to me and to you who are interested let me show
you and tell you more:
In 2006 I visited Europe and saw a newly constructed plant
which was not yet in operation. It was an approximately 40x40m
shed, 6m high, used for the preparation process of the waste.
No ‘odour’ is produced outside this shed and
people live right next to it. An approximately 30m long ‘drum’ turns
this waste into bio-gas energy, with clean non-odourous hummus
soil as its only by-product, which is clean enough to go
straight back into bio-gardens!
This construction would easily fit next to our blue hangars
adjacent to the airfield. Access will be via Old Brunswick
Road approximately 200m from the highway. Producing a maximum
of 10,000 tonnes per year, transported by a 10 tonne truck,
means less than 4 trucks per day. This minor increase in
traffic and noise will have no negative impact on our domestic
life on Tyagarah Hill. This is obviously clear without a
study. I will be going over to Europe again this year to
see the plant in operation before I make my final decision
proceeding. Whoever would like to join us on this trip is
welcome.
I do not base my decision or plans on productivity or financial
profit, its more based on my motivation and my hope to motivate
you, my council and neighbours, to support this. At this
stage I do not know who will operate this plant and where
it ends but it is a start today that we need. Swiss tennis
star Roger Federer starts playing the Australian Open only
hoping that he wins. We have more swiss technology which
maybe helps us and we will win too!
Eagle Farm is
a paradise in a beautiful countryside, we have no definitive problems here
directly, the problems are more in the future and the cities if the natural
circles of Nature remain broken; ie. by us continuing to pollute the air, flushing
nutrients into the sea and poisoning the soil. Our current society is energy
hungry not saving energy. Nuclear steam power is not the answer, and all this
will increasingly affect my paradise here on Eagle Farm Halting and reversing
these disasters is my motivation.
You may think I am a dreamer – believing that by building
this plant, it makes a difference? At 58 years old I should
retire with a glass of red wine! But there is another motivation;
my children, the youngest of whom, Saskia, can expect more
from her father as an inventor than a retiree.
Today I have to motivate you to trust my idea /concept and
I have to find partners in this venture to make it happen.
You can help me there by believing in this. Partners and
investors in this venture should be as follows:
• Waste collecting companies
• Electricity companies
• The Swiss Compogas company
• Private people who want to live at Eagle Farm can be in service or incorporated
who want to operate the gas power plant, Eco Centre, garden etc
Beside building this Plant and trying to make a maximum number
of people interested we have to start Eco-tourism. We need
to inform people and show them here at Eagle Farm that in
ALL circles/cycles, nature needs to help us, especially in
our cities, to allow us to survive.
LIVE smart - support this DA
• Connecting Eagle Farm Buildings to the plant with liquid and gas pipes.
• Installing efficient fuel cell technology in the Eco Centre producing
DC power and heat for healthy water.
• Building domestic energy saving design with new: water technology (Bio
Quell) - no chemical sewer. Healthy organic waste - recycle separate paper,
plastic and metal.
• Separating loo and poo. Faeces is piped together with kitchen and bath
water into a “bio drum” (my invention) where solids stay in the
drum next to the house and water with minimum pollution, runs off to the sewerage
energy plant. Generated gas and urine are then separated for recycling.
The solids, bio-mass, get turned around. Gas goes to the
plant via the pipe and when the drum reaches 80% full the
signal goes to the waste collection company, who pick in
a sealed truck and traqnsport it to the Compogas plant.
If we can airseal a space shuttle we should be able to seal
the odour and get energy from our waste as well as giving
the nutrients in the hummus back to the soil. Thus completing
the circle of life!
Which was the first Australian hydro energy station approved?
Mullumbimby! Please approve this DA too.
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