Jutht Thit On It, Athole!
If only we could train our dogs to carry their own composting toilets! But this invention by industrial designer Virginia Gardiner called the Gardiner CH4 is meant for people. Certainly for times when one cannot find a public toilet, such carry-along potties might come in handy. Preferably with a fold-up curtain to fend off the curious, and a can of deodorant spray. ;-)After the user does his or her business, a mechanical “flush” drops the package into a lining-wrapped sealed container. Like rolling luggage, the person trucks the container to a community biodigester unit, which composts the waste to produce methane gas. _PopSciHence the name, "CH4", methane. Such a contraption would have been quite the thing in DC the last few days, with millions of atholes milling about--particularly media atholes. How could anyone object to anything so "green"?
Labels: energy from garbage, Environment
posted by al fin at 1:53 pm
4 Comments:
Am I to understand from step 4 in the illustration that they make some kind of orange energy drink from this crap?
The Gardiner CH4. An appropriate blog post to coincide with today's events. But, I find this info. much more valuable.
Thank You.
No, Baron, I believe Obama voters breathe the CH4. It's what keeps them hoping for change they can believe in.
Don, I must confess to distorting the overall use of the device and perhaps making it appear more than it is.
The toilet itself is apparently not transportable -- only the poop, once the bagged compartment is full. But since I like devices that are more ingenious and useful and not so much merely "green," I feel Ms. Gardiner should go back to the drawing board and make the entire device collapsible and portable.
If she has to put it all on a Segway, all the better! ;-)
Change you don't need to believe in - you can smell it for yourself.
This might be a great temporary solution to the lack of sewage systems though the addition of an extra task in ones life (poop delivery) would probably not survive long as a population began to escape poverty. I can just picture one of these at a mall; the time before teenagers set fire to the bag-liners would be measured in seconds.
If only there were a low-energy way to rapidly remove water from sewage you could skip the treatment plants and have water borne sewage of modern societies deposit waste into such systems at a local level.
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