Garbage In... Methane Out

The old adage "Garbage In .. Garbage out " is very much valid..in most instances, but not here..
With cities and population growing and living spaces shrinking by the minute, this one is noteworthy..

The Story
We have a "Bio-gas" plant installed at home.. and here " Garbage In" is "Methane Out" and whatever garbage that comes out (the slurry, I mean) is too good to be garbage.. That good, that it has to be diluted before feeding the plants, or else you risk the plants of over nutrition :-).

My dad has this habit of trying out new things... and if he has made his mind on something.. he would just see to it that he accomplish it somehow or the other , and has this knack of talking over people to agree to it. On topics he is keen to promote he just goes flat out..

So it was he who masterminded the Operation Bio-Gas plant at home.. me n my brother was totally against it .. but somehow he managed to get my mom ( who was pretty neutral on this topic) to vote in his favour ... and finally we had to give up ... Yield to his justifications ( which I felt were overly exaggerated).

The whole task of installing the the B-plant was a "shitty Business". Yeah.. After the plant was shipped home, it had to be filled with "Bull Shit" ( read Cow dung ) first thing and that too Fresh !!!.
The whole exercise was on a Saturday, meaning, I was at home....
Now, inside the city, where the hell do you get cows, let alone Dung !!! ... and without this .. nothing would work...

Finally the lady who was supervising the installation , said that there was someone known to her, who had 4-5 cows. We drove all the way to his house, hired a man( Kutappan), hired a box auto ( petty auto ) and filled in the shit.. 2 loads to be exact. The aroma of the freshly laid shit .. and to top it Big B 'z buzzing around.. it was a spectacle , both for eyes n for the nostrils !!!!
We rode back, us in front and the shit load following , with Kuttappan, standing atop the shit-pile, as if he were on top of Mount everest.

Now that we reached home, there was hardly any place to download the bull shit.. so I parked the car outside and the petty-auto rolled-in.. and Kuttappan jupmed out ..nd unloaded the stuff on to our porch ... I saw mom's face going shapeless and dad looking somewhere else as if he never knew what was happening.. I just coudnt stand the smell and the sight of kuttappan.. that I ran off and locked myslef in my room.. But smell doesnt know that i dont like it, he made his way into my room and " you are not welcome " blabbers.. didnt matter .. I had to get out or my abode .. and face the shit...

When I came out, Kuttappan had turned "Shitappan".. he was mixing shit and water to a pureee kind of consistency and pouring it into buckets.. .. and that too by hand.. had it smeared all over his face ( i guess he was wiping of the sweat) and body.. God save him !!!

Seeing my uneasiness, mom tried to ease me.. by giving lectures on how people in the past, used it to smear their floors and even use it for "sudhikalasam" and all..She even went to the extent that , there used to be a saying that ," chanakam arakkunavan ammaye verukkum"enno.. somthing of that sort .. to which I could do nothing but laugh !!!.. Ente ammede oru karyam !!! Enikku vayya... :-) . She always comes up with some sayings.. most I guess are self made :-)) but funny I must say...

And, finally by evening.. all the business was done.. and Kuttappan , cleaned up the enitre place and himslef....( I wondered how he will get back home?? ppl will not let him in any bus.. )

I must say , after that.. It wasnt as bad as I thought.. i mean the smell n all... ( mebbe bcos I was facing it since morning.. )...

But the next day.. all the smell was gone... Methane was ready , waiting to be set on Fire... Dad was happy, mom was glad.. me - speechless... :-)
Thats the end of ... the Methane Story :-)

Now The Facts..
In fact this intiative by my dad... has actually turned out to be very very fruitful and rewarding... We get home made gas to last each day for upto 4 hours..We dont have to worry much about the wastes from the kitchen..We dont have to dig holes around to bury the waste of fish and meat .. the premises are very very clean... and above all ... the LPG gas lasts much much longer than it used to....( I hear the LPG has been running for more than 3 months now).. given the rate at which the LPG prices are soaring up.. my dad had his ideas SPOT ON !!! ...
It really is worth the smell and investments !!! ... and All that Stinks is not all that bad...

The suggestion..
If u have some space at home, ... a day u can stress your nostrils and lungs..,and ..waste ny ways we create (instead of dumping it by the road or someone else compound) to dump... give it a try... its worth it..

GO GREEN .. save the planet :-)) ( Jokes apart. I mean it )...

and pls dont come to my home to see how it works.. for you stand the risk of facing the explanations ( to the very minutest of details ) from my DAD... :)))