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Got it.

Years ago, my mom worked at the commissary at Whiting field (tiny Navy base near Pensacola. Seahawk is probably familiar). My parents also had a garden and crap soil (all sand). For quite a while when the produce would go bad, she'd bring it home and put it in their compost pile. It made a huge difference for their garden, but they actually got much better veggies growing right out of the compost pile.
First, an anerobic digester means "without oxygen". A compost pile is an aerobic digester. When you decompose organics without air, you produce methane and carbon dioxide. Composting produces only CO2 and lots of heat.

With an anaerobic digester, you get the energy as methane instead of heat. After dewatering the material from either process is the same.

My main business is Landfill Gas (anerobic) to Energy. We also do A-D for food waste diversion. And we also take the A-D gasses from waste water treatment plants.
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