Bill Gates and Jimmy drink poop water (omniprocessor)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHgsL0dpQ-U

You might remember the Omniprocessor from the previous thread, that will hopefully be used in Africa to turn sewage water inexpensively into clean drinking water.

Here are the test taste results of bottled water versus omniprocessor-treated sewage water,
or is it? ;)
thanks to Jimmy Fallon.

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Amazing but it pains me that people are only Africa gets this :( If I had a septic tank, I would totally want this #1. Hell why isn't California who had a recent water crisis using this. Even if people didn't want to drink it, it would be great for agriculture. If these can be mass-produced, it would be even cheaper! God I hate that ignorance is standing between us and amazing technology!
 
hipbabboom said:
Amazing but it pains me that people are only Africa gets this :( If I had a septic tank, I would totally want this #1. Hell why isn't California who had a recent water crisis using this. Even if people didn't want to drink it, it would be great for agriculture. If these can be mass-produced, it would be even cheaper! God I hate that ignorance is standing between us and amazing technology!
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You're telling me.
 
hipbabboom said:
Amazing but it pains me that people are only Africa gets this :( If I had a septic tank, I would totally want this #1. Hell why isn't California who had a recent water crisis using this. Even if people didn't want to drink it, it would be great for agriculture. If these can be mass-produced, it would be even cheaper! God I hate that ignorance is standing between us and amazing technology!
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I don't think Americans, once given the disclosure, would want to drink clean water that came from sewage. Much higher mental standards than starving people in poorer countries probably.
 
hipbabboom said:
Amazing but it pains me that people are only Africa gets this :( If I had a septic tank, I would totally want this #1. Hell why isn't California who had a recent water crisis using this. Even if people didn't want to drink it, it would be great for agriculture. If these can be mass-produced, it would be even cheaper! God I hate that ignorance is standing between us and amazing technology!
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A California drought is like... don't water your lawn. Take shorter showers. In developing nations it's more like there's no potable water, so preventable diseases are spreading.
 
Cyan said:
A California drought is like... don't water your lawn. Take shorter showers. In developing nations it's more like there's no potable water, so preventable diseases are spreading.
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I get that. This machine makes clean water and electricity and we don't need sewage which is likely to dumped into the ocean. Even if you make the argument for not wanting to drink it, we can use the electricity. This machine makes clean electricity too. Such a device being made applicable in the West will only improve its effectiveness and cost for the many people it can help in Africa.

Maybe I'm missing something here but is there anything other than ignorance standing in the way of getting such a thing implemented here in the states?

Messofanego said:
I don't think Americans, once given the disclosure, would want to drink clean water that came from sewage. Much higher mental standards than starving people in poorer countries probably.
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Minerals can be added. We do it to purified water all the time and sell even.
 
hipbabboom said:
Maybe I'm missing something here but is there anything other than ignorance standing in the way of getting such a thing implemented here in the states?
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My guess would be scalability. Focus on the biggest impact areas at first, then see about developed countries.
 
hipbabboom said:
sewage which is likely to dumped into the ocean.
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Sewage is typically treated and frequently recycled for various uses.
This machine makes clean electricity too.
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Not by burning shit to power itself it doesn't.
Maybe I'm missing something here but is there anything other than ignorance standing in the way of getting such a thing implemented here in the states?
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Regulatory barriers, O&M is unknown, operations may be difficult, toilet-to-tap is still a political landmine.
 
Of All Trades said:
Sewage is typically treated and frequently recycled for various uses.

Not by burning shit to power itself it doesn't.

Regulatory barriers, O&M is unknown, operations may be difficult, toilet-to-tap is still a political landmine.
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Here is the machine's workings explained. The machine produces enough electricity to sustain itself and provide surplus for other uses. I don't think you will make a pedantic argument such as needing electricity to start it.

Its great that we treat some water (we don't treat all) to a low enough level of refinement to get some sort of use out of it but the level of use we can get out of drinkable water is far more valuable and doing so on a system that uses its own clean energy to do so is a plus. You cannot debate an inferiority to our existing process other than perhaps its scalability which is something I doubt neither of us are qualified to make any definitive statements on.

Finally, your last point is the reason I was expressing my frustration with ignorance earlier. Our laws, politics and the lack of education of the public on the benefits is very much all factors of ignorance. Whether is something like this, or GMO or vaccines, we seem to be a nation that favor ignorance over what's good and proper. It's infuriating.
 
If this is successful in Africa, it can be the game changer for every third world country.

Bottled water companies like Nestle, Pepsi, Coca Cola etc back in the States would have a field day if this scheme was brought over where the fear-mongering over tap water will increase even more and the public will believe the billions in marketing. "Oh and now your tap water comes from sewage thanks to your taxpayer money but only we get water from the freshest of mountains. Now fork over your money so we can ruin more local towns muhahaha".
 
FeenixRising said:
Did they really cover the Apple logo on Jimmy's laptop? lol
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They do it on all shows to all brands. If they aren't paying money, they don't get their brand on the air.

If they are paying, you will notice it on most of the desks, and sometimes actors carrying something awkwardly to make sure the brand is in clear view.
 
This is really cool actually. Does kind of make me wonder if there will ever be a human or alien society that lives like that tribe in Dune, having to recycle absolutely every drop of water
 
Messofanego said:
Bottled water companies like Nestle, Pepsi, Coca Cola etc back in the States would have a field day if this scheme was brought over where the fear-mongering over tap water will increase even more and the public will believe the billions in marketing. "Oh and now your tap water comes from sewage thanks to your taxpayer money but only we get water from the freshest of mountains. Now fork over your money so we can ruin more local towns muhahaha".
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Isn't this process already done in the states?

Just not affordable which is what Bill Gates and his team proposed. As some posters have already said, the cost is the game changer part.

When you live in a country that doesn't have continuous electricity, toilets, and running water, you would understand how much of an impact this invention can be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaimed_water
 
Messofanego said:
If this is successful in Africa, it can be the game changer for every third world country.

Bottled water companies like Nestle, Pepsi, Coca Cola etc back in the States would have a field day if this scheme was brought over where the fear-mongering over tap water will increase even more and the public will believe the billions in marketing. "Oh and now your tap water comes from sewage thanks to your taxpayer money but only we get water from the freshest of mountains. Now fork over your money so we can ruin more local towns muhahaha".
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I can only imagine such a thing happening if people tried to compete with them. There are so many other applications areas this can be dropped in before we even get to the topic of human consumption. Hell, I would argue this becomes a litmus test of sorts to weed out dangerous parasites from society because anyone who would complain about this even at an industrial level is probably benefiting from society in a way they probably shouldn't be.

All honesty, I just want one for my backyard :( Stupid people wont be invited to my backyard :(

Ultimately, I'm happy Africa (and hopefully anywhere else in the world) is getting it. bums me out to be left out of the party.
 
outunderthestars said:
If you live downstream from any city you are already drinking treated poop water.
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Hmm if your response was to the latter part of my statement then recycling poop water is peanuts compared to what the tribes in Dune do, if it's in response to the former part of my statement, well yeah but this design seems like it has a lot of potential to improve living conditions in poorer countries which is what I thought was neat.
 
I already can't drink tap water with it's nasty metallic taste, I have to buy bottled spring water just to make sure I'm not drinking germs. Poop water is just too extreme for me, I would never use this. Not that water is a rare resource up here in Canada so I don't need to worry about this becoming a "thing"
 
Messofanego said:
I don't think Americans, once given the disclosure, would want to drink clean water that came from sewage. Much higher mental standards than starving people in poorer countries probably.
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How can you say you love her when you can't even drink her poop water??


I need to get off gaf
 
enigmatic_alex44 said:
I already can't drink tap water with it's nasty metallic taste, I have to buy bottled spring water just to make sure I'm not drinking germs. Poop water is just too extreme for me, I would never use this. Not that water is a rare resource up here in Canada so I don't need to worry about this becoming a "thing"
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yeah because animals don't die or defecate in spring water
 
kingwingin said:
yeah because animals don't die or defecate in spring water
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Er, they can't. A spring is literally where the water comes out of the ground.

They do, however, die and defecate in surface water.

Well, I guess a mole or something could, but they usually try to avoid the water table.
 
enigmatic_alex44 said:
I already can't drink tap water with it's nasty metallic taste, I have to buy bottled spring water just to make sure I'm not drinking germs. Poop water is just too extreme for me, I would never use this. Not that water is a rare resource up here in Canada so I don't need to worry about this becoming a "thing"
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You do understand that bottled water is pretty much the most germ-infested way of drinking water (that is not directly from a lake or river)? And stupid for a myriad of other reasons.

Also, if climate change advances like it seems to be advancing, Canada might suffer from some droughts that affect how much water there is to spend. At a time when it was only something like 1,5 degrees celcius warmer on average than now, a lot of rivers & lakes in Canada were completely dried up.
 
yogloo said:
What happens to the waste created by this machine?
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The machines bi-products are water, electricity and ash. Pretty nice huh... not sure what one does with ash but its simply carbon at that point; it's not hazardous waste.
 
hipbabboom said:
Amazing but it pains me that people are only Africa gets this :( If I had a septic tank, I would totally want this #1. Hell why isn't California who had a recent water crisis using this. Even if people didn't want to drink it, it would be great for agriculture. If these can be mass-produced, it would be even cheaper! God I hate that ignorance is standing between us and amazing technology!
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You already are. You're drinking it, showering in it, swimming in it, your food is growing from it.

The point of this machine is that its cheap and self sustainable for third world countries. Processing sewage for re-use is already happening in most first world countries, it just that third world countries couldnt afford to build, run or maintain the infrastructure we already use.
 
hipbabboom said:
The machines bi-products are water, electricity and ash. Pretty nice huh... not sure what one does with ash but its simply carbon at that point; it's not hazardous waste.
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I would presume that the ash would/could be used for farming purposes - could be wrong though.
 
Cyan said:
A California drought is like... don't water your lawn. Take shorter showers.
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Surprisingly many issues related to water have nothing to do with technology, but rather attitude. Even in developing nations.

I find it hilarious how drinking cleaned sewage is somehow amazing, but it is cool to see technology like this. A big cause of child mortality in India is dirty drinking water.
 
Misterinenja said:
Well IMO, first world countries should be setting an example by adopting this first.
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No, it sets a better example in poor countries where it's an actual problem than first world countries that are not hurting on clean water or have 840,000 people dying each year because of the lack of it.
 
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