Posted 02.24.2012 at 3:45 pm
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New Toilet
Lana Birbrair
About 2.6 billion people worldwide do not have access to a sanitary toilet. To fix this, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded eight grants last year to scientists and engineers to invent a toilet that could function without piped water, a sewer system or outside electricity—and would cost less than 5 cents a day to operate. With the funding, scientists are working on using processes such as evaporation, combustion, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion to break down waste in toilets into three essential resources: water, fertilizer and fuel. Click here to see how it works.
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Saw similar concepts from the TED projects. I think combining this with the Popci peepoo article bag putting them out like sausage links sealed in a bag until it safely degrades the plastic to release safely digested compost. Smell is the biggest feature preventing appeal. Negative air pressure is obvious, but my favorite concept is a cool plasma barrier during defecation.
This is such a waste of money. Aside from the fuel aspect a simple composting toilet would fill all these criteria. I have one in my remote cabin and it works great. When used correctly it is sanitary, there is no smell and the end product makes great fertilizer.
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