User:BrianBrechner

Brian Brechner born January 3rd 1960, invented the DRS2CH4 anaerobic digester in 1989. Brechner is an artist, also well known as Brechner of Taos. He grew up in Taos, New Mexico and likes to paint wildlife and landscape. He has been known to paint a few portraits he calls survival work. His favorite media is oil, but also likes acrylic and ink. He began painting as a child, living in Taos, New Mexico and soon found himself influenced by the great artist of Taos. "I am a self proclaimed dreamer." Brechner says. "I love history, but I live in our future, the present doesn't hold much for me." he went on to say. Now 50 years old he is concerned about seeing his dream (of the trash converter in every home) coming true.

Hi, my name is Brian Brechner. I invented the DRS2CH4 digester. I first began working on the idea back when President Nixon lowered the speed limits on our highways to 55 mph because of what we called at that time, a fuel shortage. Only about 15 years old at the time, I overheard my father speaking about how fossil fuel was good back when it was cheap and abundant, but one day we would need new resources. He said, “Henry Ford designed the first mass-produced automobile, the Model T, to run on pure ethanol, but switched to gasoline because it was cheap and abundant.”

Growing up in Taos, New Mexico, I had many mentors like my father (Bernard Brechner). Michael Martin Murphy, at the time went by Michael Murphy in the 70's when he had the hit song 'Wildfire' He told me that because there was another Michael Murphy in Taos, he decided to go by Michael Martin Murphy out of consideration for the other guy. He was very kind hearted in that way. He taught me a lot about what he called ‘going back to the earth.’ This was when I first realized that we really did need an alliterative fuel source. The problem was that not many Americans felt that way in the 70's or 80's, and many that did, lived in Taos. Like Dennis Weaver, for example, an actor from Missouri that later moved to Taos. When I met him he was building a house out of used truck tires. He built the first solar outhouse I had ever seen or heard about. Like Michael Martin Murphy, Dennis Weaver also believed in conserving the land and spoke about landfills that were destroying our air and our soil. He told me that when trash rots in the ground it releases methane gas into our air, and toxins into our soul. "Tires are one of our earth’s worst enemies," Weaver would say. He built his home in Taos out of used truck tires, beer cans and wine bottles to keep them from them ending up in our landfills.

In 1979, I told my dad about my idea: fermenting trash and collecting the gas to burn in cars. My dad had a long talk with me about how our economy works and how our government receives most of its money from crude oil and gasoline tax. “Even if you could build a machine that turns trash into power, our government will put a stop to it,” he said. That didn’t stop me. My dad didn’t know what he was saying! Or so I thought. YES! I should have listened to my father about a lot of things, I know that now. I have adult children now, and they listen to me much like I listened to my father. ‘Dad is crazy’ they seem to think, and they are embarrassed by me most of the time. So please, don’t bring up the Flux Capacitor in front of them.

That brings me to my point, the anaerobic digester (DRS2CH4). For more than twenty years I have continued to research and develop this machine that ferments trash and stores the methane for the powering your home or automobile. I built the first prototype in 1989. And in 2005 a friend I grew up with in Taos by the name of Alfonso Ortiz contacted me. He being an engineer for a large oil company, I decided to bring up my idea about the DRS2CH4 over lunch. (at the time I referred to it as the flux capacitor) That was when Total Living-green Concepts began development and the trademark 'TLC Earth the power of green' was born.