Watch Bill Gates Test A New Machine That Turns Poop Into Clean Water

Business Insider ^ | 01/06/2015 | Rob Price

[SeekAndFind]

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Bill Gates has taken to his blog to discuss the latest project from the philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: a machine that transforms human waste into clean water and electricity.

According to Gates, at least 2 billion people worldwide don't have access to adequate sanitation, with human waste often polluting the water supply and remaining untreated.

The "Omniprocessor" aims to help with this problem. Its development is led by Seattle-based engineering firm Janicki Bioenergy.

The machine extracts water from sewage that's piped in or delivered to the facility. The dry sewage is then incinerated to generate steam, which powers the entire machine.

[BenLurkin]

If real, should be just thing for space colonization.

[taxcontrol]

Note the lack of cost vs ROI information.

[Lazamataz]

Wow! Bill has a real s***-eating grin there!

[Lazamataz]

Wow! Bill has a real s***-eating grin there!

[nascarnation]

For crony capitalists, those are minimal considerations...

[VanDeKoik]

Hook it to the toilets in Congress and run the other end to the drinking fountains.

[FredZarguna]

As much damage as Bill Gates has done via his foundation, this is an example where a broken clock is right twice a day.

It is an absolutely appalling statement on the quality of leftist priorities that First World liberals are hand-wringing over a possible rise of 1.5 kelvins over a century, but are entirely comfortable with the fact that 1/3 of the people on the planet do not have reliable access to potable water.

[WakeUpAndVote]

[nascarnation]

You’re thinking rationally....that’s not gonna get much traction in the MSM.

[huldah1776]

Would be excellent for India’s Ganges River except I bet the corpses would clog up the system.

[reg45]

This technology will greatly benefit countries in the third world.

[Scrambler Bob]

But you have to start with Barbara Streisand’s poop —

it doesn’t stink.

[Zathras]

OMG that is funny!
Careful, Gates will want to patent this.

[SaveFerris]

I thought maybe it ground up old boxes of Windows 95 and Windows Millennium.

Guess not.

[elteemike]

Brilliant!!!

[Vendome]

[Zhang Fei]

I’ve always thought Bill Gates was young-looking. He now looks every day of his 59 years. He’s ready for his AARP card.

[Disambiguator]

He’s only drinking it because he knows that the machine is running Linux.

[blackdog]

Milwaukee has been doing this since the 50's. Instead of burning the sludge however, they run it over a shaker bed as it's dewetted by vacum and then kiln dried. It is then standardized with enzymes and ph balanced for use as the best lawn fertilizer ever made. We would all know it as "Milorganite". People pay $25 per bag for it.

The water is cleaned and returned into Lake Michigan.

Nothing new here. By selling the end product, the energy input to run the system (natural gas) is covered. This supposedly new system neglects to tell us that it's still fired by natural gas.