As far as a solar array, we are, indeed, not experts at solar. Our head engineer has, since 1992, been designing composting systems to large and small installations all over the world. We’re a small company of waste stream fanatics–PV systems are, as the business world would say, not exactly one of our “core competencies.” We would, of course, be SUPER excited to see Guilford make PV happen–if it does, please send us photos!

Thanks again, I look forward to following your progress!

I suppose the water could be filtrated. The drainage system is currently set up to make the system completely closed at least until we get the health inspector’s approval. Once we get that cleared I’ll probably just drain into a five gallon bucket or something so it can be dumped back into the system. Since we are pulping all of the food waste, essentially removing most of the water weight, there really isn’t a significant amount of leachate coming out of the unit.

And I would love to see it hooked up to a solar array, but to answer your question I think it would be cost prohibitive especially since the unit is already quite expensive. Green Mountain Technologies is in the business of making in-vessel composters, not manufacturing solar panels. But we have definitely thrown around the idea of hooking it up to a solar array, and again I would love to see it happen. Thanks for your input and stay tuned!

The page looks great. Thanks for keeping us up to speed.

Mark