Posted on 09/15/2016 7:38:27 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Researchers are scaling up successful trial methods of producing safe fertilizer from urine to reduce water pollution and to replace synthetic fertilizer, whose manufacture is energy intensive and expensive.
But removing bacteria, residual pharmaceuticals and viruses from urine - which urban legend wrongly maintains is sterile - is the simpler part of the problem.
More difficult is persuading people to eat the food.
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I do it all the time.
The criminal illegals are already not washing their hands
for a reason.
From a chemistry POV, this probably fine.
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You can also tan leather, fix organic dyes, case harden metal, and make gunpowder with it.
Northern European adult urinates enough to grow from 50 to 100 percent of the food another person needs.
Someone should write a book. 101 uses for whee
They are correct. The difficultly is in the execution.
Kinda like when you’ve been out all night drinking with your buddies.
You get home to your sleeping wife and really have to take a piss. You could pee in the yard or the toilet or stand on the bed a piss all over your wife.
Chicks dig this.
Again, the execution is the issue.
darn. Those researchers never heard of earthworm castings. Can’t get more natural than that. And it’s dirt cheap too!
Then there’s chicken, cow, horse manure. Might as well add some bull to that.
Actually false. I accidentally killed my wife’s flower garden with that.
You mean not just for beer?
I am saving my for Hillary’s grave.
I live in a rural area and will sometimes just step behind the house to urinate. I got to noticing that in that general area the grass was dying.
After a few months it came back and was the best looking grass in the yard. I guess it kills it first then fertilizes it.
The tinkle of life
Soon after moving to Switzerland we learned why the countryside was so beautifully green - after following a “honey-pot truck” making its way between the fields. Bad smell when freshly applied - but did make things grow.
In ancient Rome, human urine was used to launder woolens (because of the ammonia content)
Ahhh, pretty soon it’ll be Night Soil. And then we’ll totally be back in pagan, pre-civilized days.
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