On today’s show, we will be exploring the possibility of heating your tiny house with compost. Not long ago, I came across a book called The Compost-Powered Water Heater. It’s only about 140 pages and I read it in one sitting. Author Gaelan Brown details the experimentation and the work that has been done in harvesting the heat from a compost pile and using that to heat a greenhouse, barn, or even a hot tub. I was surprised to find out that the author also lives in a tiny house, built on the back of a flatbed truck, named the Dodge Lodge.
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In This Episode:
- Who was Jean Pain and what were his important contributions?
- How the Agrilab approach differs from traditional composting
- The uses for the heat harvested from compost
- The financial and environmental impacts of using heat from compost.
- Using compost for heat in your own backyard
- An overview of the science involved in composting
- Gaelan’s tiny houses: The Dodge Lodge and Steady Betty
