Bill Gates says a new plant that can turn human feces into electricity and clean drin

[mick silver]

Bill Gates says a new plant that can turn human feces into electricity and clean drinking water can save a huge number of lives. The plant, called the Omniprocessor, was designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy and backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The facility would try to prevent diseases caused by contaminated water supplies.





A test plant is up and working at Janicki's headquarters north of Seattle, according to a blog post by Gates (http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omniprocessor-From-Poop-to-Potable). The first operational plant is planned for Senegal.
"The next-generation processor, more advanced than the one I saw, will handle waste from 100,000 people, producing up to 86,000 liters of potable water a day and a net 250 kw of electricity," he wrote. "If we get it right, it will be a good example of how philanthropy can provide seed money that draws bright people to work on big problems, eventually creating a self-supporting industry."
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/150107074034-gates-feces-drinking-water-620xa.jpg "It's delicious!" Included is a video of him drinking a glass of the water produced by the plant, which he describes as "delicious" and "as good as any I've had out of the bottle."
"Having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It's that safe," he writes on the post.
Related: Melinda Gates - Education gap 'terrible for our democracy' (http://money.cnn.com/video/news/economy/2014/10/13/melinda-gates-income-inequality-education.cnnmoney/index.html?iid=EL)
The feces is heated to 1000 degrees Celsius, or 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit to draw off the water, which is then further treated to make sure it is safe. But the dried out feces can then be burned, producing enough heat to generate electricity needed to extract the water. Excess electricity can be sold to outside users, as can the water.
Gates says diseases caused by poor sanitation kill some 700,000 children every year. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is making an effort to improve sanitation in the developing world.
"Today, in many places without modern sewage systems, truckers take the waste from latrines and dump it into the nearest river or the ocean—or at a treatment facility that doesn't actually treat the sewage," he wrote. "Either way, it often ends up in the water supply."
Related: Bill and Melinda Gates give $1 million to gun control push (http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/26/technology/gates-gun-control/index.html?iid=EL)

[Publico]

I'll be more impressed if Windows 8 was functional.

[palani]

http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/200H/i/2014/337/3/5/gary_oldman_in_the_fifth_element_by_kdillie-d88jm9v.png

[Shami-Amourae]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzppWSIFU0

[Dogman]

I'll be more impressed if Windows 8 was functional.

Seeing that windows 7 is what vista should have been. Been running 7 now for a few years, and no complaints it works for me. Use virtual xp mode for my older programs.

From what I have heard, I would not touch win 8 with any length pole.

[Shami-Amourae]

Every other version of Windows sucks. Windows 9 should be very good. Then again they are calling it Windows 10, so maybe they want it to suck.

Before Vista we had XP, which was a wonderful OS.

[Dogman]

Every other version of Windows sucks. Windows 9 should be very good.

Before Vista we had XP, which was a wonderful OS.


Yep xp was/is great, gotta love restore, at least it was there when it was needed when something goofed up.

[collector]

I'll be more impressed if Windows 8 was functional.

EXACTLY !!
Makes me question ANYTHING he endorses or stands behind

[palani]

Makes me question ANYTHING he endorses or stands behind

Original DOS was a CP/M ripoff.

Same with Internet Explorer. NETSCAPE was there first.

[Dogman]

Original DOS was a CP/M ripoff.

Same with Internet Explorer. NETSCAPE was there first.

Yep, think I still have my Netscape instillation disks and a shirt with the rainbow lighthouse on the back when it was a pay for full features and such. Very good browser in fact the best at the time that still lives under the hood of many browsers even today. Very early net in the transition from dial up bbs's to the internet .

[palani]

Very early net in the transition from dial up bbs's to the internet .
I knew a guy who got a 1200 baud modem. His next phone bill was $300 and his wife made him put it in the safe deposit box. Too valuable to leave near the computer.

I never did get into the BBS scheme. Might have if they had calling cards at $.03 a minute but the AT&T monopoly was pretty pricey to maintain.

[Dogman]

I knew a guy who got a 1200 baud modem. His next phone bill was $300 and his wife made him put it in the safe deposit box. Too valuable to leave near the computer.

I never did get into the BBS scheme. Might have if they had calling cards at $.03 a minute but the AT&T monopoly was pretty pricey to maintain. Back in the early days bbs's were dam near the only game in town, the internet exited, but in general was not for the general public.

Yep, forget which service, think it was CompuServe that I lost track of time, and I also ran up almost a $300 bill.

Learned lesson and confined myself to local or 800 access (which was rare)

Hated compuserve software, mundo bloated.

1200 baud, at that time was smoking, if the lines were clear, I think there is still a 300 baud some where in my junk pile..Need to do a clean out some day.

[expat4ever]

Be nice if gates could figure out what to do with all these worthless computers I have. Be even nicer if he could write an OS without a gzillion bugs and also make it hacker proof.

[Dogman]

Small and tight code would be nice, and not the planet sized bloat that is the norm with windows.

[collector]

Original DOS was a CP/M ripoff.

Same with Internet Explorer. NETSCAPE was there first.

Wow, I totally forgot about Netscape.
What was Earthlink, was that just an ISP?

[monty]

Earthlink was an isp.

[crimethink]

Some people are of the opinion that Bill Gates turned human feces into an operating system. :)

[crimethink]

I'll be more impressed if Windows 8 was functional.

Windows 8 aka the Fisher-Price OS is only adapting to the ever-declining cognitive norm of humans.

[crimethink]

Original DOS was a CP/M ripoff.

Same with Internet Explorer. NETSCAPE was there first.

Not exactly. I once used NCSA Mosaic, the parent of Netscape.

[crimethink]

I knew a guy who got a 1200 baud modem. His next phone bill was $300 and his wife made him put it in the safe deposit box. Too valuable to leave near the computer.

I never did get into the BBS scheme. Might have if they had calling cards at $.03 a minute but the AT&T monopoly was pretty pricey to maintain.

I was working in the industry at the pinnacle of Dial-Up Neverworking modems, when Rockwell's 56K vs. USR's x2 were competing. We had to have separate modem banks. A huge change in the industry, just before DSL took off, was from Stockon, CA-based PacWest Telecomm: they debuted local-everywhere POPs, which were virtual lines in every California exchange, and then connections were call-forwarded to their data centers in Stockton, Oakland, and Los Angeles. Both Pacific Bell & AT&T had a cow, and sued, claiming that PacWest was circumventing their Inter/Intra-LATA long-distance scams. That system remains in place, for those still confined to DUN. The "extra tones" at dial-up are call-forwarding tones. PacWest's model utterly destroyed the 3/5/+ cents/minute scam of Internet access. A $300 bill was low compared to some I heard of (a co-worker's was twice that - she & her husband, new to the area, made the mistake of thinking everything area code 916 was local - uh, no, Davis to Chico is not local, it's Intra-LATA LD!).

[crimethink]

Wow, I totally forgot about Netscape.
What was Earthlink, was that just an ISP?

EarthLink was my employer at one point. :) At that time, you could still interact with the big shots, including founder Sky Dayton.

It still is an ISP, although when they merged with MindSpring, they essentially assumed MindSpring's operations as their own. A lot of EarthLink's own facilities were closed down.

EarthLink still does dial-up, but focuses on resale of DSL & satellite now.

[Glass]

the last thing I want to be greeted with when I boot my computer is a complete chronology of what I did the last time I turned it on and I certainly don't need a screen full of porn thumbnails from my browsing history. Now that scenario would not happen with my computer (of course) but I have turned a few on to be greeted with that situation. Much to the embarrassment of me and the client.

I have a win 8 install that I tweaked so it now displays a start menu instead of those tiles. The start menu is 3rd party. Looks almost 100% windows but you can tell it's 3rd party. Works quite well.

I'm at the point where I don't want to see any more versions of windows or cloud-doze. I'd like to be doing something that doesn't rely on using a PC. That's my dream. I Hope I can achieve that. 2 years max left before it's all over.

As for drinking piss. Seems to be something that some races of people enjoy. Or at least they want everyone "else" to drink their own pee.

[Hatha Sunahara]

This is an example of the BGates business model--which can be summarized as "Eat sh*t and die."Applies to everything he has ever done--Operating Systems, vaccines, waste recycling, and whatever else.


Hatha

[Mouse]

Now that shit is creating water and excess power, the next iteration will involve human detritus. Fill them to capacity with pisswater and throw them in the incinerator.

[Shami-Amourae]

Honestly I don't understand why you guys see this machine as a bad thing. Recycling water in dry/arid environments makes a lot of sense. Reverse Osmosis makes water very clean. I can very much promise you some of the water you drink and is part of your body has come into contact with shit at some point or another. Whether it was human shit or dinosaur shit. A lot of our food is grown in shit, some of which is human shit.

Great documentary on some shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9x79_WYbk

[crimethink]

Now that shit is creating water and excess power, the next iteration will involve human detritus. Fill them to capacity with pisswater and throw them in the incinerator.

"Bill Gates™ brand Drinking Water is PEOPLE!!!"

[crimethink]

Honestly I don't understand why you guys see this machine as a bad thing. Recycling water in dry/arid environments makes a lot of sense. Reverse Osmosis makes water very clean. I can very much promise you some of the water you drink and is part of your body has come into contact with shit at some point or another. Whether it was human shit or dinosaur shit. A lot of our food is grown in shit, some of which is human shit.

Great documentary on some shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9x79_WYbk

I just have a problem with Bill Gates, not the technology. It looks quite valuable. Although some municipalities have been using (green, leafy) plants to purify sewage for decades.

[gunDriller]

Now that shit is creating water and excess power, the next iteration will involve human detritus. Fill them to capacity with pisswater and throw them in the incinerator.


That does work.

The place I learned composting from uses shredded chickens as part of their compost feedstock.

That's not exactly the same as shredded humans (feathers tend to have a lot of nitrogen), but I wager that a good soil scientist would find a way around that.

[Shami-Amourae]

I just have a problem with Bill Gates, not the technology. It looks quite valuable. Although some municipalities have been using (green, leafy) plants to purify sewage for decades.

I hate his gun control nonsense.

He's been very great with eugenics in Africa. He's been fighting to reduce the population there and been fairly successful.
http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/8/101/358/101358460_5294337_1368486674_100059880_2979159_z1i aviototm.jpg

[crimethink]

I hate his gun control nonsense.

He's been very great with eugenics in Africa. He's been fighting to reduce the population there and been fairly successful.

If he was limiting it to Africa, I wouldn't care. But he's a Nigger-lover, as well. Look up Gates Millennium Scholarship. Whites Need Not Apply, even if you've been dirt-poor for generations. Anything but White.

https://scholarships.gmsp.org/Program/Details/2bfd8f53-40aa-4705-9f8b-d92d972e59df

[palani]

Whites Need Not Apply

So who is white?

http://www.qwipster.net/silverstreak.jpg

[crimethink]

So who is white?

http://www.qwipster.net/silverstreak.jpg

Ask Bill Gates! He seems to know. I wonder if a White Afrikaner could apply for a GMS as an "African-American"?

LOL at the Silver Streak image.

[StreetsOfGold]

Seeing that windows 7 is what vista should have been.

Vista was the BETA of Windows 7 but SOLD AS a DIFFERENT operating system.

Quite a ploy there. Get EVERYONE to PAY to beta test his windows 7 operating system

If I know Bill Gates, this "plant" is a test system for their underground bunkers.

Afterall, what do you do with all that waste in those underground cities they have built?

[Shami-Amourae]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHgsL0dpQ-U

[Neuro]

If he can extract more energy and water than goes into making Windows 8 then he would have a real breakthrough perpetuum mobile...

[Serpo]

I made something like this for bug out station.............no water............


http://www.milkwood.net/2011/04/18/compost-toilet-specifics-the-bins/