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This super-toilet can generate electricity and clean water as it composts waste
United Kingdom Architecture News - Jan 06, 2016 - 13:15 5575 views
A Cranfield poster showing the insides of the toilet. image via Global Construction Review
The Nano Membrane Toilet, which has been developed with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, would be a kind of ‘super-toilet’, helping to improve sanitation for people without access to utilities – at present some 2.5 billion people around the world. As the name suggests, the toilet works with the aid of a membrane that separates solid waste from water molecules.
The filtration system is said to be so effective that its water could be used to wash hands. Meanwhile the solid waste passes into a gasifier that burns it to produce electricity, leaving ash that can be put on fields a fertilizer. The electricity is used to power the filtration system, which uses a combination of sonic waves and a vibrating plate. It also generates a surplus that could be help to charge mobile phones.....Continue Reading