HOMEENHANCING YOUR WATER WAY & SITE ASSESSMENTSMICRO HYDROSOLAR THERMAL--design & installationBACKGROUNDCONTACT Information
This has gotten to be a fairly complex area; especially with the explosion of interest in Europe in WASTE to ENERGY biorefineries; and in some regions of the world in hydro---Maine for tidal energy, British Columbia for micro hydro and in-river turbines, Vietnam on small hydro, etc.

There are blogs with many layers of technical details; and groups that seek to restore water mills.

On the other side of the energy fence are militant environmentalists seeking to remove dams and other impediments to fish migration and breeding, who promote a negative view of micro hydro.

The easiest thing is to email us or call for the most appropriate references.

Maine Center for Bio-technology

Petr Paucek, Ph.D. is a Czech. bio-scientist with a wide range of affiliations ranging from John Hopkins Medical School to the Sherbrooke Bio-Technology Park in Canada. Petr has an extremely well equipped lab for doing research on microbs and enzymes/bio-catalysts.

Petr's home page

Penn. State University Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering has pioneered vertical tank digesters for cold weather--as a graduate of Penn. State I can vouch for the cold winters in State College.

PENN STATE BIOGAS web portal.

The American Biogas Alliance

Small Farm Digesters, Minnesota Project

Methane-to-Markets global alliance

GLOBAL ENERGY BIOMASS gassifiers from INDIA