Google Science Foo Camp 2014

On Sunday August 10 at 11:00 am in the Stillsuit Room, Solar CITIES co-founder Culhane led a session on "Open Source and DIY Citizen Science for Sustainable Development: Simple Solutions for Energy, Water and Waste Management". Throughout the weekend in the demo area he displayed Solar CITIES brochures, descriptions of our projects and a 220V Insinkerator, a gift of Emerson Electronics, that he was bringing to Swaziland for the biogas for hydroponics system build occuring August 19 through 27 with former Scientific American Science in Action award winners and Google Science Fair finalists.

http://www.digital-science.com/sciencefoo/

Event date

Monday, August 11, 2014 - 12:00

Fat Beet Farm Biodigester: Florida's first Commercial Restaurant Scale Puxin Biogas System

Fat Beet Farm is the food service commissary and microgreen hydroponic and raised bed production farm serving the 5 Curci Family Noble Crust restaurants in Tampa.

Located in Oldsmar near the bridge to Dunedin and the Race Track, not far from the University of South Florida, Fat Beet Farm serves as a sustainable practice model for the Food Energy Water Nexus Zero Waste Initiative where Patel College Interns work for credit to put sustainable development theory into practice.

Working with fellow National Geographic Explorer Dr. Luke Dollar, Chair of the Center for the Environment and Catawba College's Department of Environment and Sustainability and his students, T.H. and Enas Culhane built a "twin dragon" Solar CITIES IBC tank digester system with floating IBC tank gas holder inside the greenhouse on campus. The system has 100 foot of pex coil in each tank connected to a propane gas water heater to circulate hot water in the system and will eventually be switched to biogas.

Google Science Foo Camp 2014

Fat Beet Farm Biodigester: Florida's first Commercial Restaurant Scale Puxin Biogas System

Catawba College Sustainability Department Greenhouse build