EXCELLENT!..........................
Posted on 07/09/2021 5:44:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Students at a South Korean university can earn a digital currency called Ggool when they use the toilet. Their excrement is turned into renewable energy to power the building.
Professor Cho Jae-weon at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology designed an eco-friendly toilet called BeeVi—a portmanteau of bee and vision. The toilet connects to a lab that uses excrement to produce biogas and manure. It powers devices in the building such as a gas stove and a boiler.
"If we think out of the box, faeces has precious value to make energy and manure. I have put this value into ecological circulation," Cho told Reuters. An average person's daily toilet habit can provide enough energy to power a car for three-quarters of a mile, he said.
Excrement earns students 10 Ggool per day, regardless of how much they…contribute. Ggool, which means honey in Korean, can only be used at an on-campus market to buy everyday goods. Students scan a QR code to pay in Ggool.
In a study published in 2016, the scientists behind BeeVi called Ggool “feces standard money (FSM)” and described the digital currency as an “artistic collaboration between scientists and artists as a means of achieving the forms of life depicted in Walden and Walden Two,” in reference to American writer Henry David Thoreau’s seminal works that explore naturalist themes.
And that may have had the intended effect on Ggool traders. "I had only ever thought that faeces are dirty, but now it is a treasure of great value to me," postgraduate student Heo Hui-jin told Reuters at the on-campus market.
Ggool isn’t a cryptocurrency and cannot be bought or mined anywhere outside the sewage system of the South Korean university.
Of course it does...lmao...
Ah yes.
The name will be Sh*tCoin.
So how much energy does it take to convert faeces into energy?
The Fed is already doing that to US$.
The New Jersey version is called "Gabagool."
Talk about “filthy lucre”!
Beat me to it: “that’s nothing, the democrats have turned our currency into feces and flushed our economy down the toilet”
From “Ca-Ca” to “Ca-Ching”!.....................
YES! I just ate Taco Bell! Ima gonna be rich!
Dirty money
So it basically transforms fecie to specie.
It’d take 3-4 months to make enough poo to make a grocery store run.
So, how much energy is used to turn the poo into energy?
I’d be rich beyond all imagination!
EXCELLENT!..........................
Decades ago, when South Korea was more rural and less rich, they commonly used to spread human waste on their rice fields.
Truly the country side smelled like shi’ite. I was TDY to Kunsan Air Base in the late 70s, in the Spring time. Holy crap, the smell!
SanFranSicko could be energy independent!
South Koreans work hard and are prosperous.
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Where’s the Metamucil? I need some currency, bro.
I suppose it’s a Korean thing. Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector who talks about children being forced to collect fecal matter and bring it to a local facility to be used for fuel and fertilizer. They have no industrial means to manufacture fertilizers, so they compel the populace to collect excrement. They bring in their own poop and animal poop from wherever they can find it.
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