On 11-07-97 Aaron Knutson wrote to All... 
 
 AK>   It allways seemed (to me at liest) to be a good fuel for homesteads 
 AK> or 
 AK>   the like, with obvious side benefits...  has something happened to 
 AK>   diminish the usefullness of home brewed "swamp gas"? 
 yep.  In temperate climates, it is a bitch to keep the temp of 
the fermenter at 90 deg F during most of the year.  It still works 
a 72, but half fast.  like making yogurt by the barrel. 
 
Then too, there is the storage problem, in that compression to a 
dense liquid state takes unreal pressure levels a homesteader is 
not too keen on having around the place. 
 
Finally, there's not enough waste from a family of four unless 
they have livestock to get enough methane to meet cooking needs. 
And, if you have livestock, then you probly buy grain at the feed 
mill, for them, and you might just as well buy propane, if you 
consider how much petrochemicals went into producing the grain in 
the first place. 
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