Release date: 2015-02-27
A company in Seattle, USA, developed a sewage treatment device that can extract pure water that can be directly consumed from human feces. Do you dare to drink it? American rich Bill Gates really drank a cup and praised "good taste!"
Fecal water, Bill Gates takes the lead
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded by Bill Gates, is the world's largest charitable foundation. The foundation's mission is to reduce global inequalities, funded projects from vaccine research, educational scholarships, and condom research. Renewable energy technology, the most eye-catching thing recently is to fund a project to extract drinking water from human waste, and Gates has repeatedly taken the opportunity to promote it.
In a video that was announced, Gates introduced the huge machine that filters human waste and purifies it into drinking water.
Because the demonstration used "hot Xiang", everyone naturally and intuitively called the filtered water "fecal water." After drinking the filtered water, Gates said that there was no smell and it was good.
Gates not only drank a glass of this water, but also "baked" photos on his blog. Gates wrote on the blog, "I saw a few sputum droppings on the conveyor belt and finally falling into a container. They were treated in the machine and heated to boiling. After a few minutes, I drank the final product: a cup of flavor Good drinking water." The video shot at the time showed that Gates seemed hesitant at first, but after taking a sip, he smiled. "The taste is not worse than any bottled water."
Although there are Gates's personal demonstrations, how many people can cross this psychological barrier? Gates is on the nighttime show with the most popular young people in the United States, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, when he spares no effort to promote the Janicki OmniProcessor. Uncle Gates Fudge host Jimmy Fallon tastes and discerns which cup is filtered fecal water. Gates said that he brought two glasses of water, one for filtered water and one for normal bottled water. If Jimmy Fallon had a drink, he would drink another. After some reasoning and psychological struggle, Jimmy Fallon chose a cup and thought that he was drinking bottled water, but Gates told him that both cups were filtered water, and Jimmy Fallon's expression was very funny.
Uncle Gates is flickering, choosing 1 or 2 is a problem.
Jimmy Fallon chose 2
Gates told him that both cups are pure water filtered by feces.
OmniProcessor works in an environmentally safe manner, aiming to solve the problem of water pollution caused by excreta
The OmniProcessor machine works by burning human feces at high temperatures and breaking it into steam and dry matter. The steam drives the generator to generate electricity and is purified by special distillation as drinking water. The burnt feces become non-toxic dry solids. Because phosphorus and potassium are used as fertilizers, this process takes only 5 minutes. Its most special point is that it can generate electricity in addition to the production of filtered water, and does not pollute the environment.
At present, the company announced that the machine will be put into operation in Senegal, Africa. The machine can process 100,000 excreta, produce 86,000 liters of drinking water per day, and generate 250 kW of electricity, which can help poor local residents to drink clean water. They can produce the electricity they need. Gates said that the Omniprocessor's internal temperature is as high as 1000 degrees Celsius, so it does not emit an unpleasant smell, and all gas emissions meet US standards. At present, the downside is that the machine is too large and expensive, and each machine is worth $1.5 million.
The use of human excrement is estimated to be better. If the manure can reach the effect of drinking water, other sewage, such as muddy water dug out in arid areas, can achieve the same effect. The convenient and economical production of drinking water and energy is the biggest selling point of the Janicki OmniProcessor, so it seems that Gates and his friends are really smart people.
Gates explained that the reason for funding the study of “fecal water†machines is that the toilets used by about 2.5 billion people around the world have good sanitation facilities, causing excreta to pollute the water source, and 700,000 children die every year because of water pollution. many. The Gates Foundation has been focused on eliminating factors that are not conducive to children's health and the application of new technologies in related fields, so he personally went out. Gates has previously funded eight universities and hopes to invent new toilets that do not require external water pipes. The sewers can convert human waste into energy, clean water or nutrients. It now looks like the Janicki OmniProcessor is the result of an upgrade to this program.
"Qiqi" research and development is not the first case, the toilet, condom field is extensive
It is reported that this is not the first time that Uncle Gates has invested in such a relatively novel industry. It can be seen that Uncle Gates has never stopped thinking after retirement.
Bill Gates retired in 2008. In 2011, his foundation launched the "Invent a New Type of Toilet" competition. People who won awards with wisdom and creativity also brought hope to the difficult countries.
Because of the lack of energy and infrastructure in developing countries, Gates has high requirements for new types of toilets, including the inability to use mobile water, electricity or septic systems, and the inability to produce pollutants, preferably from feces. Resources, running costs per day are about 5 cents. And easy to install, use and maintain.
In the end, the designers of the California Institute of Technology won the first prize. They designed a solar toilet that produces hydrogen and electricity and received a $100,000 bonus. The prototype of the toilet is powered by solar panels, and the electricity generated can be used to drive an electrochemical reactor to break down moisture and human waste into hydrogen, which is collected for use in hydrogen fuel cells.
In 2013, Bill Gates provided $100,000 in start-up funding to the inventors through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Healthcare Plan Challenge to develop the next generation of ultra-thin condoms. He said that the newly developed next-generation "ultra-thin, skin-like" condoms will enhance the sense of pleasure and will help control the population and provide investment from companies in developed countries.
Nowadays, the uncle has turned his eyes to the poop, and the water that has become a great drink is delicious. Netizens joked that Uncle Gates is really rich and self-willed, from contraceptives to toilets and then to water, a complete one-stop service!
Although Uncle Gates always escapes the ridicule of the netizens, but behind the support of the philanthropy, the people of the world are well known. This invention, if it can really achieve the multiple goals of producing filtered water and power generation, will be of great value to the world, especially developing countries.
Source: Bio-Exploration
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