# Jean Pain

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'''Jean Pain''' (12 December 1928 – 30 July 1981) was a [Swiss](/source/Switzerland)-born<ref name="jeanpain">[http://www.jean-pain.com Jean Pain official website]</ref> [French](/source/France) inventor and innovator who developed the [compost heater](/source/compost_heater), a [compost](/source/compost)-based [bioenergy](/source/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](/source/methane) to run an electricity [generator](/source/Electrical_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 ==

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== 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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