“Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, wants to talk poop,” Claudine Zap reports for Yahoo News. “Literally. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is hosting a ‘Reinvent the Toilet Fair’ on August 14 and 15, is on a mission to build a better crapper. Why? Poop is a worldwide problem.”
“Foundation co-chair Bill Gates, who announced cash prizes at the fair today for the best designs, said in a statement, ‘Innovative solutions change people’s lives for the better. If we apply creative thinking to everyday challenges, such as dealing with human waste, we can fix some of the world’s toughest problems,'” Zap reports. “The foundation has committed $370 million to the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WSH) initiative, which includes devising a 21st-century toilet.”
Zap reports, “Some of the ingenious ideas at the toilet fair include a Swiss system for diverting some urine and recovering water for flushing, and a design from Stanford researchers that turns human waste into charcoal. And a team from the Delft University of Technology in the the Netherlands invented a toilet that turns human waste into fuel through microwave technology.”
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MacDailyNews Take: ♫♬ And he’s buying a shitter to heaven. ♫♬
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Pony” for the heads up.]
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