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South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by INCREDIBLE007(m): 8:32am On Jul 09, 2021 |
https://m.jpost.com/omg/south-korean-toilet-turns-excrement-into-power-and-digital-currency-673339 Using the toilet grants the user a currency invented by the engineer. The currency can then be used on campus in various shops and cafeterias Using a toilet can pay for your coffee or buy you bananas at a university in South Korea, where human waste is being used to help power a building. Cho Jae-weon, an urban and environmental engineering professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has designed an eco-friendly toilet connected to a laboratory that uses excrement to produce biogas and manure. The BeeVi toilet - a portmanteau of the words bee and vision - uses a vacuum pump to send feces into an underground tank, reducing water use. There, microorganisms break down the waste to methane, which becomes a source of energy for the building, powering a gas stove, hot-water boiler and solid oxide fuel cell. "If we think out of the box, feces has precious value to make energy and manure. I have put this value into ecological circulation," Cho said. An average person defecates about 500g a day, which can be converted to 50 liters of methane gas, the environmental engineer said. This gas can generate 0.5kWh of electricity or be used to drive a car for about 1.2km (0.75 miles). Cho has devised a virtual currency called Ggool, which means honey in Korean. Each person using the eco-friendly toilet earns 10 Ggool a day. Students can use the currency to buy goods on campus, from freshly brewed coffee to instant cup noodles, fruits and books. The students can pick up the products they want at a shop and scan a QR code to pay with Ggool. "I had only ever thought that feces are dirty, but now it is a treasure of great value to me," postgraduate student Heo Hui-jin said at the Ggool market. "I even talk about feces during mealtimes to think about buying any book I want." 1 Like
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Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by lilvicky68(m): 8:35am On Jul 09, 2021 |
Wow.. and my shit just dey waste for here.. |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by INCREDIBLE007(m): 8:37am On Jul 09, 2021 |
lilvicky68: E shock me too o |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by INCREDIBLE007(m): 8:56am On Jul 09, 2021 |
if this technology reach Nigeria oboy many people go Become millionaire immediately na to go chop better junk food wey go make person purge go dey shit am and get paid mods abeg this one na front page stuffs o Mynd44 lalasticlala |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by illicit(m): 8:59am On Jul 09, 2021 |
Shit |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by middlebelter(m): 9:09am On Jul 09, 2021 |
Why can't we consider granting this Inventor Nigeria Citizenship and appeal to him to come and train some Nigerians? 1 Like |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by MrBONE2(m): 9:18pm On Jul 09, 2021 |
lilvicky68: |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by lilvicky68(m): 9:40pm On Jul 09, 2021 |
middlebelter:Given him Nigerian citizenship is like taking him back to nursery2.. |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by middlebelter(m): 11:19am On Jul 10, 2021 |
lilvicky68: You are not a nice person and you know ? Haba! |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by Flanghim: 6:06pm On Jul 11, 2021 |
It's a novel idea, but this seems a little too much enthusiasm for me: "I had only ever thought that feces are dirty, but now it is a treasure of great value to me," postgraduate student Heo Hui-jin said at the Ggool market. "I even talk about feces during mealtimes to think about buying any book I want." |
Re: South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power And Digital Currency by RexTramadol1: 7:24pm On Jul 25, 2021 |
Shit n win promo |
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