DIYbanter - New toilet technology after 150 years of waste

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One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity.
Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns
excrement into charcoal.

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I was on a diving job in the Atchafalaya basin in 1978 or so for Bannister
Pipeline Co., the company that did the Alaska pipeline. Since it was
through a wilderness area for 90 miles, the EPA and government were all over
it. We used styrofoam billets the size of Volkswagens to float the
pipeline, and when they were cut off underwater, they frayed a lot. The
crews had to pick up any piece of styrofoam "big enough to be seen at ten
feet". About the size of a pea.

One night they caught a Cajun trying to steal several tied together, and all
he could do with his little outboard was about one mph full throttle. He
wanted them to float his houseboat. Would have done a good job.

So, they were government to the nth degree.

On the job, there was a Destroylet. It was a nice clean modern outhouse.
When you finished your business, you shut the lid, came out, and flipped the
switch on the door. It then went into self-clean mode, and electricity
started crackling, and smoke started coming out a pipe at top. It had solar
batteries and propane to cook all the turdlets into ash, which they hauled
to the dock in some seriously expensive bags. You couldn't get in until it
had finished the last load, so if it was a big job, there was a line at the
door. If you were anyone but first in line, it could get interesting.
Musta cost a bundle, too.

Steve