Biogas

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This is a video that shows a simple biogas setup

in Pune, India using food scraps instead of

manure waste to produce usable gas for cooking.

There's many other videos on the subject on YT,

especially homemade units.

 

 

I'm guessing Amma hasn't changed the human sewage

problem because of cost, that she'd rather feed

more people with the money. I'm wondering how

successful the recent interest in convincing

her will be.

 

Below is a reposting of the topic a couple years

ago on the free speech zone list from Jan '06:

 

Re: Bad behavior 2

 

What is all of this actually saying? Who is responsible for letting

this happen in the ashram if Amma is not? Surely she cannot just make

everybody do everything that needs to be done? And she cannot sit and

supervise by looking over everyone's shoulder at every minute in person.

 

Following the tsunami, I remember reading that the western devotees

were the ones who finally had to go and clean the latrines in the

camps because nobody else had bothered to do this, nor would they. So

what about sewage? Maybe it is simply not practical to build at the

ashram for reasons that are not apparent.

 

P.

 

ammachi_free_speech_zone , " E. Lamb "

<jyotsna2> wrote:

>

>

>

> Lutz <pc-cad@g...> wrote: Dear Amma Fan,

> >To expect Amma's ashram

> >to conform to western values in terms of sewage, treatment of stray

> >animals, punishment of petty theives or even grumpy bramacharis is

> >asking for things that are out of the control of Amma.

>

> I know what you mean but refusing to spend some money on a

> sewage cleaning facility because it is so easy to just let it go into

> the stream is not a very environment friendly way of dealing with

> the issue. In this matter the ashram is setting a wrong signal to

> the public. The secret director of the ashram is very well aware of

> this.

> She was aware of this 17 years ago when Nealu attempted to build a

> biogas unit but failed due to imperfect setup.

> Now the amount of sewage has increased but the solution hasn't

> changed.

>

> Lutz

>

>

> Namah Shivayah,

> Earlier this year when I was in Amritapuri, it was

> very hot and while crossing the " river, " I told my

> companion I really wanted to jump in the water. She

> said, " I can make you change your mind. Where do

> you think the sewage from the ashram goes? "

>

> So I was somewhat offended this year when Darling

> Amma gave a long litany of environmental abuses,

> and even had the nerve to say to her western

> audience, " In today's world we pollute our

> water with sewage... " This was repeated on

> several tour stops. I ruefully thought to myself

> that " we " was correct for Amma to say, but the

> western audience took it as a condemnation of

> their own cultures, where there actually are

> sewage treatment plants, rather than thinking

> that Amma herself was doing this.

>

> When I mentioned it to a longtime " inmate " of

> Amritapuri, he said Amma had even joked about

> it being the " world's shortest food chain--

> The fish eat the sh_t, and the people eat the fish! "

>

> So, there you go. Another thing to reconcile

> from our Darling Mother.

>

> Love,

> Jyotsna