Comments on: Electric Indoor Compost Unit – The Red Dragon

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:11:37 +0000

Nice this machine !! but itI must tell you that this product its not compost! after that then beging the composting process ! its not mature !

By: Buddy

Buddy — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:07:10 +0000

As the cost for diesel will rise rapidly, local individual solutions and local food production will be the future. There is no doubt about this anymore. So, anything that can help reduce the nessesity for curbside collection of organics makes sense, no? The amount of energy required to “collect, transport and handel” is huge. Not everyone has a backyard. I have been testing an indoor electric composter for over a year. They work and we have not put any organics in our garbage, other then meat for 16 months. This devise takes meat so it has to be worth a look? Change is coming and bigger government to facilitate these changes is not attractive. We must own what we consume and throw away. We have to look at anything that is innovative and creative. It’s about Zero Waste and for the first time the Recycling Council of British Columbia’s annual confernce is about just this. http://rcbc.bc.ca/

By: halayc

halayc — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:50:56 +0000

What would accelerate composting and benefit plants is to instantly extract liquid organic fertilizer from the material before throwing it in the compost bin, and I’m making an appliance that simplifies doing that: http://www.urbanfarmsorganic.com . An organic liquid nutrient leads to more plant vigor, high yields, and is simple to apply to plants.

By: simon

simon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:51:32 +0000

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.

By: johnny

johnny — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:28:20 +0000

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

By: robocol

robocol — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:08:08 +0000

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!