The Brown Mound Method by the Carbon Shredders

Gaelan Brown, Carbon Shredder brings the "The Jean Pain Method" to the Mad River Valley!
Jean Pain (1930 - 1981) was a French innovator who developed a compost based bio energy system that produced 100% of his energy needs. He heated water to 140 degrees Fahrenheit at a rate of 4 litres a minute which he used for washing and heating. He also distilled enough methane to run an electricity generator, cooking elements, and power his truck. This method of creating usable energy from composting materials has come to be known as Jean Pain Composting, or the Jean Pain Method.

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• Jean Pain
• Carbon Shredder
• Valley Futures

[AoAunrealrob]

How much did it actually cost to build?

[coachgeo]

how did the BioGas part work for you? How did you store the gas? any suggestions on videos or reading on how to compress the gas for better use/storage? Where to buy Jeap Pain book? Is it in Google books? Thanx in advance.

[Anenergyoptimist]

Update: one year after we built this protoptype, the mound is still at 115-degrees. I can get 700 gallons per day of 110+ degree water. The mound did cool off during the winter, but we know how to solve that issue and are rebuilding the mound in October.

I'm teaching a "How to Build" class for this, Oct 22 (Yestermorrow) at my home in Fayston, Vt.

We'll use shredded mulch this time, and get 140-degrees. we'll better insulate so it lasts all winter. GaelanBrown-dot-com

[pajo2012]

hi i've done this in england with a couple of tons, reached 60 centigrade for about 6 months, was trying to heat a tunnerl with it...hope it goes well!

[mrgrackle]

Fantastic. I've been wanting to build one of these. I've been looking around for over a year trying to find video or blogs of other people trying this out. the only one i've ever seen up till now is the old grainy jean pain videos in german. what part of the country are you in?

[lordpeekaboo]

This is awesome. We are planning this for next year. Are you pulling methane yet?

[Anenergyoptimist]

Thanks for the support. Three weeks later the water coming from the "Brown Mound" is up to 122 degrees F, (after a week of sub-30-degree nights).

So we are confident this will provide most of our domestic hot water and a good amount of winter heat (by pumping water from the mound through a radiant-heat loop).

[pawnjp]

Thanks for the video.

Looking good!

Will you give us an update as to how it's working, and when it eventually stops, how long it lasted?

Cheers.