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What's funny? A self contained, independent of electricity and plumbing infrastructure, small, inexpensive toilet system that uses sunlight and table salt to process human waste into fertilizer, usable hydrogen, and clean water within an electrochemical cell is a pretty damn amazing piece of technology - and one with potential widespread beneficial implications.
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.
Septic systems require water that they do not have, and they also pollute the water table.
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.
Do you seriously not know what the term "open defecation" means in the article? It means taking a crap where there isn't a sewage system. It doesn't mean out in the open open.
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Originally Posted by KUchief25
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.
Good lord. They have food in Uganda, though definitely limited in terms of volume and variety. Better than some countries in Africa.
What's funny? A self contained (independent of electricity and plumbing infrastructure), small, inexpensive toilet system that uses sunlight and table salt to process human waste into fertilizer, usable hydrogen, and clean water within an electrochemical cell is a pretty damn amazing piece of technology - and one with potential widespread beneficial implications.
I don't see anything special about it. It sounds so cool to some of you because it has the word "solar" in it -- but you can make a composting outhouse for about $150.
What's funny? A self contained, independent of electricity and plumbing infrastructure, small, inexpensive toilet system that uses sunlight and table salt to process human waste into fertilizer, usable hydrogen, and clean water within an electrochemical cell is a pretty damn amazing piece of technology - and one with potential widespread beneficial implications.
Yeah and most of em will flip it over and sit on it while they try and catch some fish from the Nile river. It may come as a shock but I doubt many folks in Uganda give a crap about the green movement. They are trying to live till tomorrow.
I don't see anything special about it. It sounds so cool to some of you because it has the word "solar" in it -- but you can make a composting outhouse for about $150.
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!!!).
Yeah and most of em will flip it over and sit on it while they try and catch some fish from the Nile river. It may come as a shock but I doubt many folks in Uganda give a crap about the green movement. They are trying to live till tomorrow.
I guarantee they care an awful lot about clean water and sewage treatment (you know, wishing they had either).
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