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Watch Bill Gates Test A New Machine That Turns Poop Into Clean Water
Business Insider ^
| 01/06/2015
| Rob Price
Posted on 01/06/2015 1:51:35 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
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To: SeekAndFind
If real, should be just thing for space colonization.
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posted on
01/06/2015 1:54:45 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: SeekAndFind
Note the lack of cost vs ROI information.
To: SeekAndFind
Wow! Bill has a real s***-eating grin there!
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posted on
01/06/2015 1:56:02 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
To: SeekAndFind
Wow! Bill has a real s***-eating grin there!
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posted on
01/06/2015 1:56:02 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
To: taxcontrol
For crony capitalists, those are minimal considerations...
To: SeekAndFind
Hook it to the toilets in Congress and run the other end to the drinking fountains.
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posted on
01/06/2015 1:56:54 PM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: SeekAndFind
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.
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posted on
01/06/2015 1:56:59 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(O, Reason not the need.)
To: SeekAndFind
To: FredZarguna
You’re thinking rationally....that’s not gonna get much traction in the MSM.
To: SeekAndFind
Would be excellent for India’s Ganges River except I bet the corpses would clog up the system.
To: SeekAndFind
This technology will greatly benefit countries in the third world.
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posted on
01/06/2015 1:59:57 PM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: SeekAndFind
But you have to start with Barbara Streisand’s poop —
it doesn’t stink.
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posted on
01/06/2015 2:01:34 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
To: WakeUpAndVote
OMG that is funny!
Careful, Gates will want to patent this.
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posted on
01/06/2015 2:02:54 PM PST
by
Zathras
To: SeekAndFind
I thought maybe it ground up old boxes of Windows 95 and Windows Millennium.
Guess not.
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posted on
01/06/2015 2:05:03 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: WakeUpAndVote
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posted on
01/06/2015 2:10:37 PM PST
by
elteemike
(Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak!)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
01/06/2015 2:12:43 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: SeekAndFind
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.
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posted on
01/06/2015 2:14:42 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: SeekAndFind
He’s only drinking it because he knows that the machine is running Linux.
To: SeekAndFind
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.
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posted on
01/06/2015 2:19:45 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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