Jean Pain

{{Short description|French inventor and innovator}} {{distinguish|Jean Payne}} {{More footnotes needed|date=April 2014}}

'''Jean Pain''' (12 December 1928 – 30 July 1981) was a Swiss-born<ref name="jeanpain">[http://www.jean-pain.com Jean Pain official website]</ref> French inventor and innovator who developed the compost heater, a compost-based bioenergy system, that produced 100% of his energy needs. He heated water to {{convert|60|C|F}} at a rate of {{convert|4|L/min}} which he used for washing and heating. He also distilled enough methane to run an electricity generator, cooking elements, and power his truck. This method of creating usable energy from composting materials has come to be known as "Jean Pain Composting", or the "Jean Pain Method".

== Personal life ==

Jean and his wife, Ida, lived near Domaine des Templiers, on a {{convert|241|ha|acre|0|adj=on}} timber tract near the Alpes de Provence.

== Death ==

Pain died from bladder cancer in 1981, aged 52.<ref name="jeanpain"/> {{Where?|date=April 2014}}

== References ==

== External links ==

* [http://www.journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_pain.html Digital reproduction] of the 1981 ''Reader's Digest'' article * [http://www.comitejeanpain.be Comite Jean Pain], a Belgian organisation established to promote the methods of Jean Pain * [http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html Another Kind of Energy or ComPost-Modernism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119010957/http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html |date=2018-11-19 }}, essay by Peter Bane for the ''Permaculture Activist''

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