A Solar Powered Crapper

[WhiteFeather]

Came across this article today whilst viewing some new technology sites. Though I'm not a fan of Bill Gates, I find this new technology in solar powered toiletry totally tantilizing in todays times. Take a gander!

Reinvent The Toilet Challenge!
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the winners of its Reinvent the Toilet Challenge and the top prize went to a souped up, solar-powered model that produces hydrogen and fertilizer. If you’re thinking this sounds like another pricey high-tech green gadget for next-generation McMansions, think again: the aim of the challenge is to kickstart the development of low cost toilets for the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don’t have access to modern sanitary facilities.

Caltech Wins Toilet Challenge:

Caltech's solar-powered toilet has won the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge issued by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Caltech engineer Michael Hoffmann and his colleagues were awarded $100,000 for their design, which they demonstrated at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair, a two-day event held August 14–15 2012 in Seattle.

Last summer, Hoffmann, the James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science at Caltech, and his team were awarded a $400,000 grant to create a toilet that can safely dispose of human waste for just five cents per user per day. The lavatory can't use a septic system or an outside water source, or produce pollutants.

The challenge is part of a $40 million program initiated by the Gates Foundation to tackle the problems of water, sanitation, and hygiene throughout the developing world. According to the World Health Organization, 2.5 billion people around the globe are without access to sanitary toilets, which results in the spread of deadly diseases. Every year, 1.5 million people —mostly those under the age of five—die from diarrhea.

Hoffmann's proposal—which won one of the eight grants given—was to build a toilet that uses the sun to power an electrochemical reactor. The reactor breaks down water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen, which can be stored in hydrogen fuel cells as energy. The treated water can then be reused to flush the toilet or for irrigation.

The team built a prototype inside the solar dome on the roof of Caltech's Linde + Robinson Laboratory, and after a year of designing and testing, they—along with the other grantees—showed off their creation. The Gates Foundation brought in 50 gallons of fake feces made from soybeans and rice for the demonstrations.

The $60,000 second-place prize went to Loughborough University in the United Kingdom—whose toilet produces biological charcoal, minerals, and clean water —and the $40,000 third-place award went to the University of Toronto's design, which sanitizes feces and urine and recovers resources and clean water. Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and EOOS won $40,000 as a special recognition for their toilet interface design.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PQMqGuWlU&feature=player_embedded

http://features.caltech.edu/features/423
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/20/solar-powered-toilet-from-caltech-wins-gates-challenge/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29


Marcus Woo

mwoo@caltech.edu

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Can it process toilet paper or will it promptly clogg itself? There is no word of toilet paper... I know, i know civilized people use running water, soap and towel after they are done. Only savages use toilet paper ;) Would you use specially cultivated pitcher plant, the size of a bucket or larger, as toilet?
Any way if it does away without septic tanks, running water and works off-grid, it is worth something :)

[WhiteFeather]

Can it process toilet paper or will it promptly clogg itself? There is no word of toilet paper... I know, i know civilized people use running water, soap and towel after they are done. Only savages use toilet paper ;) Would you use specially cultivated pitcher plant, the size of a bucket or larger, as toilet?
Any way if it does away without septic tanks, running water and works off-grid, it is worth something :)

Good Point Indeed!

[Ron Mauer Sr]

Here's a low cost alternative used worldwide for years.


The Simple, Low Cost Humanure Sawdust Toilet:


Build your own. (http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html)
Instruction Manual (http://humanurehandbook.com/manual.html)
Sanitation by composting (http://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Compost_Sanitation_Paper_9_2011.pdf)
Humanure Handbook (http://weblife.org/humanure/default.html). Free. Available in 7 languages. Author Joseph Jenkins.

The “$25 (or less) Hinged-Top Humanure Toilet” used all over the world. This system has three necessary components: the sawdust toilet, cover material (peat moss, sawdust, etc.) and the compost bins. Two compost bins are needed because composted waste must sit for at least one year without fresh manure being added before it is safe to use on your garden. If the compost pile is too small to get hot then wait two years. The entire award winning Humanure Handbook is available as free download online. Hard copies can also be purchased in several languages. No one should be without an inexpensive simple composting Sawdust (http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter8_2.html) toilet during periods when potable water is scarce.


Compost temperature is important. In chapter “Monitoring Compost Temperature” of the Humanure Handbook it is said that a temperature of 120 degrees F for a few hours would eliminate pathogenic organisms completely.


One user of a sawdust toilet reported that he had found a way to bypass the need to construct and maintain the composting bin specified by Jenkins. Instead, black trash bags intended for use in a trash compactor (much tougher than garbage bags) were used as a bucket liner. When full, the black bags were removed and put in a sunny spot next to the garden. After an unspecified length of time the contents were completely decomposed and the finished product was without odor. Once the compost had cooked the trash compactor bags could be emptied in the garden and recycled as a fresh liner in the collection container.

[Delight]

Here's a low cost alternative used worldwide for years.


The Simple, Low Cost Humanure Sawdust Toilet:


Build your own. (http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html)
Instruction Manual (http://humanurehandbook.com/manual.html)
Sanitation by composting (http://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Compost_Sanitation_Paper_9_2011.pdf)
Humanure Handbook (http://weblife.org/humanure/default.html). Free. Available in 7 languages. Author Joseph Jenkins.

The “$25 (or less) Hinged-Top Humanure Toilet” used all over the world. This system has three necessary components: the sawdust toilet, cover material (peat moss, sawdust, etc.) and the compost bins. Two compost bins are needed because composted waste must sit for at least one year without fresh manure being added before it is safe to use on your garden. If the compost pile is too small to get hot then wait two years. The entire award winning Humanure Handbook is available as free download online. Hard copies can also be purchased in several languages. No one should be without an inexpensive simple composting Sawdust (http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter8_2.html) toilet during periods when potable water is scarce.


Compost temperature is important. In chapter “Monitoring Compost Temperature” of the Humanure Handbook it is said that a temperature of 120 degrees F for a few hours would eliminate pathogenic organisms completely.


One user of a sawdust toilet reported that he had found a way to bypass the need to construct and maintain the composting bin specified by Jenkins. Instead, black trash bags intended for use in a trash compactor (much tougher than garbage bags) were used as a bucket liner. When full, the black bags were removed and put in a sunny spot next to the garden. After an unspecified length of time the contents were completely decomposed and the finished product was without odor. Once the compost had cooked the trash compactor bags could be emptied in the garden and recycled as a fresh liner in the collection container.

I would like to bump this thread because I had a dream in which I was in the lower astral where dreams are usually dark and messy. In this dream I was in a toilet stall that was filthy. The toilet spewed up horrible stuff all over me. I felt slimed but I knew it was my own S*** that was on me.

Lots of channelers and sages seem to be picking up on the need to process our shadow NOW. We are meant to do it and feel in in pain when we rsist. The pain comes from what seems too filthy to acknowledge so we stuff it.

I feel that many spiritual people are reinforced in deep ways to hate the necessities of life and reject physicality. I believe we need to get more satisfaction from being physical as we deal with our "matters".

I think when we do not in happiness deal with the physical, it hits us in "pain" like getting "sick". I had many years of being with people in their vulnerable moments in hospitals. All of a sudden, people are placed in situatons where they feel they lose control of their bodies.

Sick people are forced to use bed pans and lose the privacy over body fluids. They are forced to be stuck and poked and left naked. It is so important for nurses to learn how to honor these aspects and leave people feeling safe when needing to be helped.

Illness is meaningful and beginning beforehand, we who become "ill" have lost control of health which is cooperating with the body and loving it and caring and appreciating its workings. This is societal normal expectation.

I have had so many experiences showing where the feeling of embarrassment of being a human "serum, blood, crap factory" was obvious and saddening. These incidents made me know we have a basic lack of respect installed for our contribution of manure and blood and the effluence of nature.

Women often end up caring for the basic functions of life. The lower on the hierarchy of social order, the more one is left to clean up "messes". That means we believe the mess is "dirty" I think.

So we have to turn all this on its head as our own attitudes. We really would be a different humanity when we externally love humanure and make it sacred. By allowing ourselves the benefit of self love for the "dark smelly" aspects we have pushed down into a sewer (sewers don't transmute), we'd deal with the psychological too.

A disdain for much of human "nature" and physicality is translated spiritually as original "sin" for being human.
Could we feel good enough about our selves to disagree?

Does making sacrament of biological function in a world where we coordinate all "waste" into treasures sound enlightened?

I think the way we treat humanure is outward sign of inward relationship to Creator and the WHOLEY.

Alchemy including transmuting all waste into substantial profits and manure into perfume will be a sign of a new earth. Sex and every issue about feeling what is appropriate for life will take a new light when we absolutely have no embarrassment over being in a body.

I came across a wonderful machine that turns all carbon matter to oil. This is beautiful to me!
"Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil"

qGGabrorRS8

[CdnSirian]

Here's a low cost alternative used worldwide for years.


The Simple, Low Cost Humanure Sawdust Toilet:


Build your own. (http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html)
Instruction Manual (http://humanurehandbook.com/manual.html)
Sanitation by composting (http://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Compost_Sanitation_Paper_9_2011.pdf)
Humanure Handbook (http://weblife.org/humanure/default.html). Free. Available in 7 languages. Author Joseph Jenkins.

The “$25 (or less) Hinged-Top Humanure Toilet” used all over the world. This system has three necessary components: the sawdust toilet, cover material (peat moss, sawdust, etc.) and the compost bins. Two compost bins are needed because composted waste must sit for at least one year without fresh manure being added before it is safe to use on your garden. If the compost pile is too small to get hot then wait two years. The entire award winning Humanure Handbook is available as free download online. Hard copies can also be purchased in several languages. No one should be without an inexpensive simple composting Sawdust (http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter8_2.html) toilet during periods when potable water is scarce.


Compost temperature is important. In chapter “Monitoring Compost Temperature” of the Humanure Handbook it is said that a temperature of 120 degrees F for a few hours would eliminate pathogenic organisms completely.


One user of a sawdust toilet reported that he had found a way to bypass the need to construct and maintain the composting bin specified by Jenkins. Instead, black trash bags intended for use in a trash compactor (much tougher than garbage bags) were used as a bucket liner. When full, the black bags were removed and put in a sunny spot next to the garden. After an unspecified length of time the contents were completely decomposed and the finished product was without odor. Once the compost had cooked the trash compactor bags could be emptied in the garden and recycled as a fresh liner in the collection container.

Excellent info! You can search the available compost toilets and find the "nice" ones that look just like your on-the-grid house toilets - cost from $500 - to more than $1000 - and also find the home made plans.

I've been to places where no one even digs an outhouse unless they need to draw tourists. I don't understand that. Oops I forgot - disease is a business!

[Delight]

I've been to places where no one even digs an outhouse unless they need to draw tourists. I don't understand that. Oops I forgot - disease is a business!

What I understand you to say here is that disease is more prevalent when people have no outhouses?
Wherever you find a large group of people, basic hygeine is perfect for maintaining health.

Did you know Nostradamus was one who discovered a way to treat plague and was famous for his contribution.
In a hunter gatherer society of naomadic society, there is just as much unconsciousness about the creation hugeine as in large settlements.

I heard that when a group of new oil rich Bedouins bought a jet, they pooped all over the floor and the toilet became a sty. That may not be true? But it is certain that hygeine is a good move.

But there is something even more fasinating to me...it is the science of the way we connect to the biosphere in principles that may be used for new social structure. For instance, beyond hygeine (like no open sewers, like clean water, clean food (without parasites), air, light and cleansing), there is fasinating relationship between "helpful and unhelful" bacteria.

We are at the end of the "antibiotic" age. A sience based on inerrelating systems that is weilded by people who love being embodied seems like the social basis of enlighetend society.

Another example of visionsof evolutio beyond the embrace of hygeine and using humanure:
1. We honor breasts and breast feeding. It is highly prized that women breastfeed. Like older days wet nurses as a profession and now even more esteemed.
2. All who care for the "garbage" are more esteemed than the ones who make mess. The more removed the person from the earth, the less value of caste.
3. We decide everything about our incarnation means value. Example: the waste of the menses that comes from taboos. Menstrual blood may be a plant stimualent?

Menstrual blood would have the same / very similar properties as blood meal.

http://greenthumbs.tribe.net/thread/58a9da21-8393-4f89-9278-61cbafb5eaa2
http://boards.cannabis.com/organic-growing/115373-menstrual-blood-fertilizer.html
http://community.livejournal.com/bloodmoonherbs/172932.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2091464_fertilize-indoor-plants.html
http://holyhormones.com/menstrual-cycle/harnessing-the-power-of-menstrual-blood/
http://transalchemy.blogspot.com/


Treating the issues sacredly and studying things from a natural philosophy comes because we know GAIA makes no junk. This is opposed by what we do now.