Ireland's first community scale IBC tank based biodigester!

Burning a five inch hole into the IBC tank for a 4 inch uniseal using a 19 Euro stove pipe section.

The Solar CITIES Blue Flame tour of Ireland kicked off on Friday July 3rd 2015 with a community build of a Solar CITIES IBC biodigester in the Birr Community Growery in the historic town of Birr (Gaelic for "The Wells"; interestingly Bir also means "well" in Arabic!).

The Community Growery team after completing Ireland's first small scale biodigester

The tour was masterfully organized by Eimhin David Shortt (pictured front left with the grey hat) and takes Solar CITIES throughout the green island, bringing a truly green solution home to Solar CITIES' co-founder Culhane's ancestral land. This is a dream come true for Culhane (pictured front right in red) and his clan.

Event date

Friday, July 3, 2015 - 12:00

Ireland

Blue flame Tour

Collaborative Communities

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.