A method for converting animal waste, in the form of waste slurry, to energy and useful byproducts. In addition, a soil aeration apparatus may operate without a centrally disposed support shaft, thus enabling the tine-holder shafts to be positioned closer to one another and reducing the size of the apparatus. The process generally includes the steps of providing a polymeric melt, utilizing a central fluid stream to form an elongated hollow polymeric film tube, and using this andor other fluid streams to form multiple nanofibers from the hollow tube. The bipolar electrostatic chuck is sized to support a substrate carrier having a tape and tape frame. Each buffer portion is in communication with the storage management system to receive data of packets having program identification data related to a single AV program and to store the data of the packets separate from data of packets having program identification data related to different AV programs. The mechanism assures an average write throughput within a range but allows excursions of high throughput with periods of low throughput offsetting against those of heavy usage.