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To: derheimwill
I have often wondered about the feasibility of converting human waste into useful products. For example, why haven't we invented a contraption that can turn human feces into "bricks" that can be used to fuel fireplaces? You know, like those overpriced Duraflame logs.

Every home should have one of these contraptions. Instead of sending waste through an inefficient sewer system only to be processed through multiple filtration systems at great taxpayer expense, we can simply create these bricks. These bricks can be collected in the basements of homes and then used for the fireplace. If a particular home does not have a fireplace, why they can sell or give these bricks to households that do.

As for urine, there should be a filtration device in each home that turns this back into tap water. If one is squeamish about drinking this water, the filtered water can be stored separately from the tap and used for non-drinking purposes such as filling fish tanks, for the laundry, etc.

All of this may not come about today but I am confident that we will be all doing this by the close of the current century. It's the only way to go. Otherwise, we are going to have nothing but sewage treatment plants and cemeteries in this country.

I mention cemeteries because if we keep burying people like we do, we are going to run out of room in the cemeteries and will have to build more. I think cemeteries are a waste. We need to revamp how we bury people. Too much valuable real estate is being gobbled up for use of cemeteries. Just think of all the golf courses we could have built. Dead people don't play golf.

10 posted on 11/30/2004 8:04:06 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Red Sox Win The World Series...And Bush Wins Re-election Too!)
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You know why Polacks are buried face down?

They make great bike racks!


14 posted on 11/30/2004 8:05:44 PM PST by ovrtaxt ("Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing". -- Redd Foxx)
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To: SamAdams76
Replace tombstones with RFID chips buried about 8 inches underground, and you could combine the cemeteries with the golf courses. Have designated areas around the tee boxes for placing memorial flowers.

Come on man, start thinking outside the box.
20 posted on 11/30/2004 8:13:14 PM PST by PAR35
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26 posted on 11/30/2004 9:12:43 PM PST by derheimwill (optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: SamAdams76
Dead people don't play golf.

But they vote!

33 posted on 12/01/2004 5:51:37 AM PST by kjuncowgirl
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