University of Colorado Team Wins Grant To Reinvent Toilet

[Teh One Who Knocks]

CBS 4 Denver


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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – A team of student and faculty engineers from the University of Colorado in Boulder is among the winners of grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to reinvent the toilet.

The foundation has a competition to invent a waterless, hygienic, safe, affordable toilet for the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don’t have access to modern sanitation.

The CU team was awarded $780,000 for its idea in a second round of grant awards announced Tuesday. The CU team’s idea involves using concentrated sunlight delivered through a bundle of fiber-optic cables to heat and decompose toilet waste for reuse in improving farm soils.

[redred]

hope it pans out for them :tup:

[Griffin]

that moneys going down the crapper

[Acid Trip]

Brilliant! Now 3rd world countries will have a use for all their excess fiber-optic cable! :roll:

[Muddy]

Waterless?

[Richard Cranium]

http://www.dmiblog.com/archives/Shovel%20ready.jpg

$780,000? really?

[Godfather]

Seems like a relatively insignificant amount of money to potentially develop some good technology.... Good for them, hope it works out.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:dumpsquirt:

[FBD]

it costs 780k to dig a really deep pit? :lol: what's next, figure out how to let them all reconstitute and consume dehydrated water?

[Muddy]

http://i.imgur.com/ZN0Se.jpg

[Hal-9000]

Waterless?

reading my mind...how do waterless and hygienic appear in the same sentence?

a vacuum opens up and removes the waste, right from the point of exit?

[deebakes]

reading my mind...how do waterless and hygienic appear in the same sentence?

a vacuum opens up and removes the waste, right from the point of exit?

that'd be awesome :shock: