[Greenbuilding] ... device to purify human waste, make compost and generate electricity
Grace Annam
grace.annam at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 08:18:22 CDT 2012
On 2012/08/17 20:08 PM, Corwyn wrote:
> In which case, a simple compost toilet (such as jenkins sawdust system)
> without the electrical generation aspect, would be a far more helpful
> thing (i.e. cheaper to produce, simpler to deploy, more could be made
> for the same money, etc).
I agree. Light is helpful in going to the bathroom, but not essential.
Have these people never gone to an outhouse when they didn't want to
wake everyone by looking for the flashlight? Blind people manage by
themselves just fine. And, when your eyes are truly dark-adapted, you
can see a lot by starlight.
Jenkins' system works great, and I'll bet that these days you can find
plastic buckets as a waste product in most places in the world. And in
most of *those* places, you can probably find sawdust-or-equivalent, and
straw-or-equivalent.
Then you don't need to contaminate the water with the excrement, nor
waste time and resources mixing water into excrement in order to get it
from A to B. And you get pathogen-free compost out of the deal just by
letting it sit in a covered pile.
Grace
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