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Related: About this forumWatch Bill Gates drink water that used to be human poop
For years, The Gates Foundation has been looking for a machine that could make contaminated water safe to drink. More than 2.5 billion people on earth have no reliable access to clean drinking water, so the humanitarian implications of such a machine would be immense. With the Janicki Omniprocessor, the Gates Foundation thinks it's found the best way to do it, converting sewer sludge into water, electricity and sterile ash that can be used as fertilizer. That system allows the Janicki operator to buy the sewer sludge at cost, and fund for the operation by selling electricity back to the grid. It's an ambitious plan, but the Gates Foundation may have the resources to make it work.
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Watch Bill Gates drink water that used to be human poop (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
Jan 2015
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underpants
(182,829 posts)1. DU subject line of the year, so far
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)2. I recced for that title alone.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)3. We have a Navy that pulls salty, shit laden water from the ocean, and makes
it safe to drink on a daily basis?
This might be different, but it ain't that new. Unless you are a billionaire too busy screwing your country to look.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Answering the call of millions of Windows 8 users.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)5. He still had a hard time with it. The sip was very small