At the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 the Culhanes joined Dr. Katey Walter Anthony and her husband Peter Anthony and high school science teacher Adam Low and built an experimental biogas set up in a 40 ft. conex container in the back of Cordova High School, using the 3 IBC system that Culhane, Fathy and Rimoin had designed at Sekem in Egypt in preparation for bringing small scale biogas to colder climates.
Katey and T.H. had received the first Blackstone Ranch Foundation/National Geographic Innovation Challenge Grant to see if they could harness psychrophilic microbes responsible for climate changing methane release in the permafrost and improve the prospects for temperate zone and arctic zone biodigesters to offset fossil fuel use.
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