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Think beyond your own bathroom and you might see the practical application this could have in third world countries. Besides, it's HIS money he's spending so why all the hostility?
He can spend his money as he wants -- but really why so much money? Money isn't really the answer to everything. How costly and hard is it to build a traditional outhouse, dig a hole 8 feet deep, and do what people here did for many decades? People only defecate in the open because they don't want to even make the effort to build an outhouse.
While it is a "green" technology, that's not really the point. It helps address a major health issue (defecating in the open which poisons water systems), and it does so relatively cheaply - no need for massive and massively expensive infrastructure investments in water treatment facilities, water mains, sewage piping, electricity grid, etc. Not to mention it actually produces fertilizer, clean water, and hydrogen gas (which can potentially be used as a energy source).
So does a shovel.
Poop is gonna create clean water now? I wonder if the EPA will send over some instructions for em to follow out in the villiages? lol
He can spend his money as he wants -- but really why so much money? Money isn't really the answer to everything. How costly and hard is it to build a traditional outhouse, dig a hole 8 feet deep, and do what people here did for many decades? People only defecate in the open because they don't want to even make the effort to build an outhouse.
You've got to be kidding. You think that this is an issue of people taking a crap out in the open? Seriously? They have outhouses there!!!!!
Honestly I have no idea *what* you are talking about at this point. Rich people are free to give their money where they like. Increasing survival among the neediest people is an objective of the Gates Foundation. One way of doing so is having toilets in mass use without a huge sanitation system to support that use, hence solar toilets.
I wonder how we all made it this far without bill gates and his green toilets. lol
Why do you keep bringing up that rich people can do what they want eith their money when nobody has claimed anything different? Perhaps because thinking a green bucket to poop in will solve all the problems of Uganda. Good luck with that folks. That is the problem with the left thinkers they do something because they feel it is the right thing to do. Doesn't matter if it works or not.
There's another really cool invention already out there -- it's called a septic tank and it's not all that expensive. You get to recycle your water - the grass over a septic drain field will be lush and green. If you use them right, they last and last, they're very green technology.
Seriously? What is your problem with this wonderful piece of technology?
Technology. LOL. No problems at all other than it's completely ridiculous. You really think people in Uganda are gonna take some green machine toilet and recycle all the poop into nitrogen and clean water or whatever else this magic bucket does and create this happy little utopia there? They are starving and most care about their next bowl of slop to fill their belly not how to green up their poop.
You've got to be kidding. You think that this is an issue of people taking a crap out in the open? Seriously? They have outhouses there!!!!!
Ahh hah!! You didn't read the article. I did and yes, it talked about people defecating in the open. That's why Gates is putting his money up for this fancy-dancy outhouse for them.
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