Showing posts with label Melinda Gates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melinda Gates. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Bill Gates: Software to toilets

  The Bill and Melinda Gates held an interesting event on 14 August, in which there were different types of toilets / Commodes. The idea was to create a system to dispose of human fecal material without using water or electricity and a septic system. Students of the University of Colorado took home $ 780,000 dollars for his idea: a system that uses solar energy to convert human waste into a kind of biological biochar or charcoal. ...