Electric Indoor Compost Unit – The Red Dragon
This electric, indoor compost unit comes from Korea. Photo Michael Levenston
The Red Dragon
You plug it in and hook up the exhaust pipe so that it vents outdoors. Then add a sawdust/enzyme mix and 2 litres of water to the machine. That’s it. You can add any food waste AND DOG WASTE to the mix and it will decompose the organic material.
That’s the promise. We are presently testing the machine at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden to see if it lives up to that promise.
Inside empty. Photo Michael Levenston
Addition of sawdust/enzyme mix. Photo Michael Levenston
Addition of 2 litres of water. Photo Michael Levenston
Addition of food scraps. Photo Michael Levenston
Attached are two PDFs from the manufacturer.
The second PDF is a test report on the the composter.
Contact email: brian@greengood.com.hk
3 comments
Looking at the specification the power consumption is stated at 60 kwhr per month or 720 kwhr per year! The last thing we need is a power hungry gadget doing what nature does without any energy input. Composting happens without electricity so why use a device that will increase power consumption at a time when the world needs to drastically reduce it? It’s the sort of madness that has brought us to the perilous state we are now in. I guess it will find a market in North America!
robocol,
My own experience-
Composting, when left on its own to nature, takes a long time it is subjected to climate and weather conditions it is also messy and unhygenic it attracts wild animals and rodents.
If this device is able to speed up the composting cycle, wouldn’t there be benefit if the compost is used agriculturally as fertilizer? Especially if the device is able to compost dogs and cats feces.
Not sure if the energy consumption of the device is quantified as power hungry in comparing to the conventional waste management process with dump trucks and landfill sites.
BC Hydro charges 5.91 cents for kwhr per month. This workout to be $42.48 per 720 kwhr/per year in energy cost for the device-its is about filling a dump truck with 1/4 tanks of fuel truck.
Johnny
That is about 3 solar panels needed to take care of the power consumption of this unit. It looks fine to me and I believe overtime, better technologies will appear to offer better energy efficiency for the unit, and better power output for the solar panel.
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