If you have knowledge and skills or materials in the areas of alternative energy, and have the time to physically come and join us in this effort, contact us and lets discuss the possibilities. If you have skills in grant writing and fund raising, we need your help! Please give us a call or email us and let’s discuss some ideas. If you have no free time to come, and your knowledge and skills are in a different area, you may want to make a...
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Once we are able to switch our system to operating off the grid here, and both the needs for commercial feed and power have been addressed and satisfied, we have contacts to a State run school/orphanage in northern Cambodia that we hope to assist. Here the school administrators and teachers would oversee the continued use of such a system, and incorporate it into their educational program. The students would all have a part of not only hands on...
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Students In Free Enterprise as it has been known, changed their name this year to Enactus. They are an international organization of entrepreneurial college students that I have found to be exceptional and where one can find the movers and shakers of tomorrow! They compete in regional, national and international competitions. It has been a pleasure to work with them and AquaGreen’s current system has been a joint effort, with a team of twelve...
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Food for the fish is a major cost. People in the remote villages of Cambodia, or Nepal, or a refugee camp of 200,000 in Africa do not have the money to purchase $100.00 bags of commercial fish food. But there are other things to consider. What about farming the black solider fly larvae, or grow the high protein plant called Duckweed, or worms, crickets, soy beans or algae? Even used barley hops and rye from a beer production plant deserves...
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It is a very efficient wood heater where, in summary, the smoke from the sticks burned becomes the fuel in an afterburner, creating extreme heat. By installing the horizontal chimney in the floor of the hydroponic beds it would heat the water in colder climates. The water holds and slowly releases the heat over a long period of time, such that the effect from one fire in the evening could provide heat all night long. In the morning, passive...
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One of the areas of interest is a ram pump. Used for hundreds of years to move water from streams to animal troughs using gravity as the power source. Can a percentage of water falling from a raised water tank down into the ram pump be returned back up to the tank only to fall again? If so, this will help aerate and extend the fall/cycle time back into the fish tank. Another option may be a modified bicycle. With a simple rope and block being...
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AG has built a prototype of a 1/10th scale UVI system for research and development. On this smaller scale we will test different methods of water circulation, aeration and alternative foods for the fish. The goal is to have a model that can be sustainable in remote villages, refugee camps, or even just someone’s backyard who is interested is sustainable off-the-grid food production. The diverse weather here in KY will allow us to try different...
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