Anonymous Coward User ID: 2798420 Italy 01/06/2015 09:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BREAKING: Bill Gates invests in machine that turn poop into water and electricity source: [ link to www.neowin.net] Most of you don’t really think about what happens with waste after you flush the toilet but that, as it turns out, is a really important question. And thinking about it, is what drove Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation to invest in a machine that turns feces into drinking water and electricity. Developed countries usually spend (though some would argue waste is a better term) lots of money and especially energy in dealing with sanitation and cleaning waste water. But that solution doesn’t work at all for developing nations where more than 2 billion people don’t have access to proper facilities or the waste is disposed of in unsafe ways. And that’s why the Gates Foundation is investing in “The Omniprocessor”, a sort of small scale waste processing plant that takes in human waste, and through a few processes puts out lots of clean water while also burning the leftover solids for electricity. Through that process the Omniprocessor powers itself and even generates a small amount of extra power that’s fed back into the grid. The design was recently tested out in the US with a successful results, with a bigger version set to start being trialed in Senegal later this year. If all goes well, and it this point that’s a considerable if, the Omniprocessor could start being sold to many developing as well as developed nations around the world. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8592688 United States 01/06/2015 09:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Bill Gates invests in machine that turn poop into water and electricity Kinda the same thing LENR claims? |
Carnac The Magnificent
User ID: 29440581 United States 01/06/2015 09:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Bill Gates invests in machine that turn poop into water and electricity Bill is so full of shit that this totally makes sense. Have a nice day = GFY. GFY = Go Fuck Yourself. If this offends you then have a nice day. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 18886909 United States 01/06/2015 09:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Bill Gates invests in machine that turn poop into water and electricity
...which is why he didn't need to gulp it; Gates and other 1% are investing in FRESH water-soon you will pay a hefty bill for it. It will be considered like Champagne The poop water is for the rest of us |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74827502 United States 05/04/2017 06:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: BREAKING: Bill Gates invests in machine that turn poop into water and electricity bumpz |