Posted on 06/23/2022 8:16:43 AM PDT by SJackson
Name: Peecycling.
Age: As a term, dates to about 2006; as a practice, centuries old.
Appearance: All yellow.
If this is about peeing while riding a bicycle, I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. This is about saving and storing your urine.
Why would I want to do that? So the CIA can’t get it? So that it can be recycled.
Recycled as what? Fertiliser. Human urine is a rich source of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. According to the Rich Earth Institute of Vermont, the urine one adult produces in a year – 125 US gallons (473 litres) – is sufficient to grow 320lbs (145kg) of wheat.
That’s a lot of wheat. And pee. Making it an especially welcome idea at a time when industrially produced fertiliser is expensive and in short supply, thanks to sanctions against Russia, where a lot of it comes from.
If I can use my pee to humiliate Putin, then that weird dream I had last week will sort of come true. What’s more, those same nutrients, when flushed into wastewater systems, become contaminants responsible for creating environmentally damaging algal blooms.
So by saving my pee I could help the environment, thwart Russian aggression and produce urine-rich bread? You’d also save about 4,000 US gallons (15,000 litres) of potable water annually, according to the Rich Earth Institute.
Let’s say I wanted to give my urine to a farmer. How would I go about that? If you live in Vermont, you can donate it by the jug. The foundation supplies free funnels and has a collection depot in Brattleboro. It can be “a little sloshy” at first, peecycler Kate Lucy told the New York Times, but you get used to it.
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Why don’t governments mind their own business and let the people that know how to farm ,farm
It’s an absolute joke. Imagine collecting the urine for a 5000 acre wheat farmer in the Dakotas, storing it, processing it, transporting it across the country and rigging the farmers equipment to apply it. All you’ll get from this nonsense is idiots going out on their decks and pi$$ing on their potted plants. The globalists powers that be should just skip the preliminaries and go to their end game solution, Solyent Green.
Along with whatever diseases are in human excrement.
With the blood pressure meds I’m on, I could help with about 100 acres.
Hog farms have waste lagoons full of stuff richer than human pee...
When the government excrement collector knocks, you must give them all the crap you can.
Human urine can work wonders on garden veggies, but it needs to be diluted. And there’s very little smell. Outhouses reek because urine and fecal matter are mixed, resulting in a deafening stench. Similarly, feces have little or no smell when collected properly, separate from urine. I’ve experimented with collecting “humanure” indoors and it had no smell. It composts beautifully (along with the TP) and creates fabulous soil.
Per is usually pretty sterile. Great fungicide. Kills athlete’s foot...
Beer makes you pee.
Beer is made from wheat.
Wheat needs pee fertilizer to grow.
A perfect circle.......................
Yes, they were complaining about all the meds people take ending up in our water supply and now they say it’s OK to put it right on food , LOL
They want you to eat bugs too, if you rebel at just eating plants.
These people can kiss my ass.
Our aim is to end world hunger.
Your aim will help.
Too many people on drugs, legal or otherwise and that comes out in pee, hence urinalysis.
Usually being the operative word.
Do these idiots realize how much piss is needed for just a 100 acre corn field??
They’re morons!
No one is going to want food grown with piss on it.
See “Monty Python Insurance Sketch”
If this is about peeing while riding a bicycle, I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work.
Once you hit your 70's, it's a piece of cake.
Yes. It is the salt in dog urine is what kills your lawn and plants.
We lived off grid for 5 years and did the humanure thing. I wouldn’t put it on my food plants though unless times were desperate. The Humanure Handbook author has used it on his veggie garden for 30 years though.
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