You sit (or stand) and relieve yourself, pull the lever and, bam, it's gone in a swirl of water down some pipes and no longer of any concern to you.
Not quite. The world, it seems, has a looming shit storm. The problem with our modern toilets is that it takes water to flush them, water to treat the waste and a fair amount of energy to move the process along. So, with energy being a high demand and an increasing world population producing exponentially more shit and consuming vast amounts of water to treat it, what do we do?
Is there some sort of 'green' solution to rid us of our brown mess? Will we eventually follow the lead of China (yes, China is ahead of us in this area too) and convert out poop to electricity? Would you want to live next to a crap to energy conversion plant if one existed in your area? Imagine the shit storm if something like this was proposed. How about a waterless system for flushing our toilets like those existing on our world's airlines? Solutions, people, what are they?
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Soylent Poo....the brown cracker...
Oh no! Something else I have to worry about!
No worse than living next to a coal fired plant like those in Burnsville do. In fact, it's probably better to live next to a shit burning one -- I have a feeling it would be less harmful to your health.
Actually, in college I visited my local water treatment plant. They use a natural oxygenation and bacteria process to eat away at a lot of the toxic stuff and clean the water. They also sift the water and sell the excess waste as fertilizer to our local farms.
So our treatment plant is pretty "eco-friendly" and it even makes a little money for the city.
I was at a festival recently that had 'comfy crappers', waterless and chemical free pooping places. All users had to sit, a funnell seperated the pee from solids, and then they just put hay on top of it. It was surprisingly smell free. I've seen similar soltions on eco house building programmes.
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