Originally published on the Kiva Fellows Blog.
One of the Juhudi’s clients, a young woman named Esther Marubu, took a second loan to construct a biogas unit. This system takes cow dung and converts it to natural gas, which can be used in the home for cooking and lighting.
HOW A BIOGAS SYSTEM WORKS
1) Cow dung is collected, placed in a fermentation pit, and mixed with an equal amount of water.
2) The mixture, or slurry, travels into the digester where anaerobic digestion takes place, and creates natural gas.
3) The natural gas is piped to the house and used for household tasks such as cooking or lighting.
4) The remaining slurry is now “cleaned” fertilizer which can be used to grow crops such as bananas.
Read more: Cow dung and cleaner energy in Kenya
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