Jun 26, 2012

Toilet that uses almost no water to separate urine from poop & make fertilizer & methane


Prof Chang, Dr Giannis, Prof Wang, Dr Rajagopal, and Dr Chen with the No Mix Vacuum Toilet./Promo image

Science Daily titles their post New Toilet Turns Human Waste Into Electricity and Fertilizer; It's based on a presser from Nanyang Technological University titled NTU’s new loo turns poo into power. Neither is accurate.

What the scientists from Nanyang Technological University are standing around is a urine separating toilet that uses a vacuum to evacuate it instead of water. All you get out of this is urine and poop, much like you do with theSwedish No-Mix toilets


Roediger vacuum system/Promo image

What matters is the whole system, what they do with it. The scientists at NTU have connected it to a vacuum system, like those used in airplanes or in theRoedigner No-Mix vacuum separating toilet, described our post Waste Not, Want Not: The Future of Toilets

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