<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Urine diversion may prevent electricity generation (from article: </span>the organic waste matter is the fuel and nitrate is the oxidant)</div><div><br></div><div>IMO - it makes more sense to use the urine as a fertilizer than generate electricity - those people who don't have access to electricity know how to use latrines at night, usually by using 10 cent candles.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What I find offensive about these projects (composting toilets for the poor) is that they miss 2 vital issues:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Composting toilets projects have been tried many many times, they FAIL. In fact toilet projects in general fail because they are technology orientated. The fact is (and I know this from experience) that people who live without toilets don't really want them. The real issue is changing their
mindset about water and sanitation, before giving them a solution. <br></div><div><br></div><div>2) The real problem (from an environment perspective) is us, not the poor. We need to change before we can ask others to change. What gives us the right to ask others to use technology we don't use them selves? If we adopted eco-friendly technology, the poor will follow suit.<br></div><div><br></div><div>~sanjay</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Reuben Deumling <9watts@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk@yahoo.co.uk>; Green Building <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 17, 2012 9:50 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Greenbuilding] ... device to purify human waste, make compost and generate electricity<br> </font> </div> <br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv759277325">sounds intriguing but also very complicated. A urine diverting (composting) toilet, presumably would accomplish some of the same things and has no moving parts. <br><br><br><div class="yiv759277325gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:55 AM, sanjay jain <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sanjayjainuk@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:sanjayjainuk@yahoo.co.uk">sanjayjainuk@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv759277325gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><div>http://www.umass.edu/loop/content/engineer-builds-low-cost-device-purify-human-waste-make-compost-and-generate-electricity</div>
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