Bill Gates-Backed SOLAR POO RAYGUN COMMODE Unveiled
14th March 2014
The Reg has the skinny.
Birthed by the Bill and Melinda Gates charitable foundation’s “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge”, the Sol-Char eschews the water-guzzling methods employed in the lavatories favoured by wealthy Westerners. It’s meant for users in hot equatorial areas where water is scarce and so, sadly, is proper sanitation in many cases.
Rather than a watery pan, then, a Sol-Char user deposits his or her offerings into a “reaction chamber”. Then, eight mighty parabolic mirrors focus the rays of the tropical sun down onto a “postage stamp” sized collector where the blazing combined beams are fed into fibre optic cables. These then blast the ravening photons into the chamber, achieving power output of 700 watts – comparable to that of a microwave oven – and heating the offerings up to 600 degrees Fahrenheit.
This zapping treatment swiftly converts the chamber’s smelly, unhealthy contents into a wholesome, well-nigh miraculous poo-based charcoal substance known as “biochar”.
Biochar is splendid stuff, it seems.
March 14th, 2014 at 10:30
Does Bill have one at his mansion?
Yeah, silly question. Biochar is for the MASSES, not for the Crust.