Jean Pain - English - Part 1

Jean Pain - A french innovator who developed a compost based bio energy system that produced 100% of his energy needs. He heated water to 60 degrees celsius 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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• Composting
• Biogas
• Biofuel
• Permaculture
• Methane
• Alternative
• Energy
• Peak
• Oil
• Climate
• Change
• Gardening
• Woodgas

[SONJEE]

ok, is there anyone else here who feels that this man died young? I would not be surprised if he met an untimely death by the hands of those who stood the chance to lose a lot if this info got out. What a loss but what a wonderful gift given to us who use Youtube to gain knowledge. Be well all and Namaste.

[ozricbish]

This is amazing !! I can't believe that local councils (UK) are not devising these on a large scale in light of peak oil...it is such a better answer than growing rapeseed for biomass...surely quick growing willow coppices would be ideal for this type energy extraction from composting. How feasible is it for a town garden, anyone any ideas?

[lauzeu]

yea but if all of us will start to use wood...iti will not be enough..and will start damage the ecosistem again...

[darthvader5300]

There are large parts of the world where nothing can grow except survivor plants and plants like the black saxual and white saxual and ailanthus altissima and acacia auriculiformis and others can grow on such non-agricultural lands. The heat generated by composting can be used to run a series of low temperature and low pressure ammonia gas turbine generators while at the same time producing compost to be returned to these man-made forests.

[danfromabove]

@Topazman12 You don't need to burn books if people dont want to read.

[Topazman12]

Think about this. The government is putting efforts to hide all this.

[polylingue]

My one and only question is how in the hell did he pressurize the methane in order for his little car to run?

[Tossdart]

I don't agree with some of the negative remarks but agree that it would take effort for it to take place in a city setting. Our city uses brushed off limbs from around power lines, downed trees & so forth as mulch around city trees. However just as we should be growing permaculture in waste areas of cities we could grow, fast growing willows from cuttings as example. More efficient methods of harvest could be used by cities. Even turning off 1000 lights helps.

[HotSauceJohnny]

@benjamindees ?? I said all of those things in my post (8 years, one hectare, hot water, fuel). Sounds like a lot of fun, but it's just not efficient. 8 hectares to sustain that small house for two people? Not sustainable if you ask me. But, if you happen to own 8 hectares of woodland and have an army of volunteers to help you make a 60 ton pile of wood chips and water, have a go at it!

[benjamindees]

@HotSauceJohnny First, you missed the statement that it takes 8 years for just one hectare of forest to generate that much brush.  So you only need about 8 hectare (20 acres) for a continuous harvest. You also appear to be missing the fact that fuel was not the only product. Hot water and compost were also produced.

[HotSauceJohnny]

I was originally impressed by this, but now think of it as more of an experiment. The math doesn't work. First, It took so many people to build this system for a house for two people. Then, 500 liters of fuel = 132 gallons of gasoline. A very efficient home can use the equivalent of that for hot water and propane/natural gas. The system yields 18 months of fuel and hot water , but the narrator said that it takes 8 years for a forest to regenerate the 40 tons of wood. Am I missing something?

[TemplarX2]

@ozricbish This would work where bushes are naturally abundant. Else you would deplete the soil of nutrients and you would need fertilizer more and more. However using grass is not a bad idea.