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This is an advancement of the composting toilet - it certainly is a type of composting toilet. To me the special part is the water purification system that also produces usable hydrogen (from sunlight and table salt!!!).
The only advancement is it's much higher cost and use of resources, you really can't beat $150 for a composting in-house outhouse. I don't think there is any shortage of hydrogen, and adding salt isn't really necessary.
A traditional outhouse works very well -- doesn't pollute as long as you dig the hole deep enough and keep the shovel handy to throw some dirt into the hole now and then. Very easy to maintain, just dig another hole and pick up the outhouse and move it.
They had the coolest outhouses at one state park I saw a number of years ago. It had very little odor, used no water, and at the base, they could get the compost and use it for whatever.
I guarantee they care an awful lot about clean water and sewage treatment (you know, wishing they had either).
Who ever said they didn't care about water? Why do you folks keep interjecting things into this that nobody has even mentioned? I get it. You think this green solar water purification fertilizer creating poop bucket is the coolest thing since toasted bread. At least Jobs would have included a damn Iphone attachment.
The only advancement is it's much higher cost and use of resources, you really can't beat $150 for a composting in-house outhouse. I don't think there is any shortage of hydrogen, and adding salt isn't really necessary.
A traditional outhouse works very well -- doesn't pollute as long as you dig the hole deep enough and keep the shovel handy to throw some dirt into the hole now and then. Very easy to maintain, just dig another hole and pick up the outhouse and move it.
They had the coolest outhouses at one state park I saw a number of years ago. It had very little odor, used no water, and at the base, they could get the compost and use it for whatever.
This isn't being designed to replace outhouses at Boy Scout camps, State Parks, and remote houses out in the sticks (although I don't see why they shouldn't be in time). It's being designed for fifth and disease ridden population centers in the 3rd world that lack infrastructure (electricity infrastructure, sewage infrastructure, water infrastructure - this doesn't need the first, and acts as the second and third - plus it could be an energy source in that it converts sunlight and human waste into hydrogen).
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The only advancement is it's much higher cost and use of resources, you really can't beat $150 for a composting in-house outhouse. I don't think there is any shortage of hydrogen, and adding salt isn't really necessary.
A traditional outhouse works very well -- doesn't pollute as long as you dig the hole deep enough and keep the shovel handy to throw some dirt into the hole now and then. Very easy to maintain, just dig another hole and pick up the outhouse and move it.
They had the coolest outhouses at one state park I saw a number of years ago. It had very little odor, used no water, and at the base, they could get the compost and use it for whatever.
sounds like a plan shovel ready jobs for the taking.. gates probably would get more bang for his buck paying the poor to dig deep and crap low!!
Since when does a toilet need electricity to begin with? Unless it's a fusion powered rocket toilet....WHOOOOAAAHHH!!!!
When it's not simply a toilet.
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shovel ready jobs for the taking.. gates probably would get more bang for his buck paying the poor to dig deep and crap low!!
