Home Biogas Systems in Australia
HomeBiogas has made its way into over 90 countries across the globe, but it has been making waves in one particularly special country: Australia. With Australia’s scenic landscape and plentiful sun, it is no wonder that it is home to such a thriving environmental movement. It is this, coupled with a strong desire to live independently from big energy companies imposing rising prices and the development of the renewable energy field, which has pushed a growing number of Australians to embrace living “off the grid”. A testament to this trend – Australia has the highest rate of residential solar panel installations worldwide, according to the Energy Supply Association of Australia. Perhaps soon it will claim the title as one of the countries with the highest home biogas unit usage worldwide!
Home biogas appliances could prove to be very useful to Australian households, who according to the Australian EPA, waste one in five shopping bags of groceries they buy. One in five shopping bags accumulates to a loss of $3,800 worth of groceries per household each year. A home biogas system will be able to save those would-be groceries and generate monetary value from them, in the form of FREE cooking gas.As home biogas appliances are becoming more and more popular in Australia, we want to highlight a few notable HomeBiogas customers.
1. The Thrifty Gardeners- Newington Australia
Jyoti’s family makes recycling a priority. Between their HomeBiogas 1.0 appliance, worm farm, compost pile, and recycling bins, hardly anything makes it into their trash can these days. Their garden is the ultimate example of upcycling, with structures, pots, and seating recovered from a variety of secondhand sources. Their motto is to “use what you have, and use it well!”
Jyoti’s family proudly showcased their wonderful garden and HomeBiogas appliance this year during Australia’s Sustainable House Day, a true testimony to their local community engagement and the country’s growing environmental movement. The event draws in thousands of visitors each year to a display of Australia’s “greenest” homes. Jyoti says in an article she wrote about the experience that the feedback she received this year was awesome.
About her HomeBiogas system, she writes “we cook whenever we can on our outdoor stove connected to the biogas plant that generates fuel from our kitchen waste.”
Bee is active on Youtube and shows how she uses both outputs of HomeBiogas. Here you can see how she uses the organic liquid fertilizer or effluent to nourish her food garden. The biodigestion process does not destroy the nutrients of the food, rather the effluent is packed with nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous.
Here is a video of Bee using the biogas made from the home biogas unit to cook a bone broth. To conserve energy Bee says that she uses the biogas to get the broth boiling, and then she uses a haybox- a nonelectric way to keep food a consistent temperature.
Here is a video of Bee using the biogas made from the home biogas unit to cook a bone broth. To conserve energy Bee says that she uses the biogas to get the broth boiling, and then she uses a haybox- a nonelectric way to keep food a consistent temperature.
Since Paul and Annette are very causous about their impact, they don’t quite have a ton of food waste. Their solution: to pick up extra food waste from the local New Brighton Farmers Market so that they can feel their home biogas system.
As for the cooking experience with biogas? The couple’s stove is split between an induction cooktop run off solar power and a cooktop run on homemade biogas from HomeBiogas 1.0! Take a look:
We hope that seeing some of these HomeBiogas customers in Australia has inspired you. Many of them are living an off-the-grid lifestyle, trying to live autonomously, not connected to the municipal supply of water, sewage, gas, electricity, or any other mass utility infrastructure. The movement has gained a growing number of followers, though each individual and family has their own reasons for making the leap. Some make the change to reduce their ecological footprint or get more in touch with nature while others take part due to cost-efficiency or their desire to become truly independent. Just like the reasons behind making this lifestyle change are unique and diverse, so are our customers. We are proud of our unique and wonderful Australian “biogasers”, and are happy to share their connection to HomeBiogas with the world.
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