Get your shit turned into gold! A South Korean researcher has created a toilet that turns human waste into power. Where does the money come in, you ask? Well, it’s the bonus incentive. Every use of the special toilet scores you the currency developed by Urban and environmental engineering professor Cho Jae-weon. The virtual currency, called Ggool (‘honey”), can be used to buy items within Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST):
The toilet first pumps your excrement into an underground tank, which means it uses less water right off the bat when compared to a traditional toilet. Microorganisms then break down the waste into methane, a usable source of energy.
In short, it’s a delightful new method of turning sewage into power.
“If we think out of the box, feces has precious value to make energy and manure,” inventor Cho Jae-weon, an urban and environmental engineering professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), told Reuters. “I have put this value into ecological circulation.”
The toilet could turn roughly a pound of solid human waste, the average amount a human poops in a day, into an impressive 50 liters of methane gas, according to Cho. That means it can generate half a kilowatt hour of electricity, enough to drive an electric car for three quarters of a mile.
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