Bill Gates Wants to Reinvent the Toilet

[Guest]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it has awarded Delft University of Technology a grant to develop a new type of toilet.

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[cobra5000]

Bravo! This is an excellent idea.

 

[jackbling]

It is crazy the amount of fresh water that is flushed daily, developing countries need this for sure, but from a conservationalist stance the us could stand for an update.

As population grows, water will become more and more of a commodity and logistics nightmare.

 

[koga73]

Good idea...
Just hope it doesn't break or that'll be one messy fix.

 

[Netherscourge]

He's given up on reinventing Windows. Now he's trying to reinvent toilets.

Same thing?

 

[cinergy]

Shit!

 

[acadia11]

Excellent, idea.

Bill Gates, doing what Steve Jobs wishes he could do, giving us shit that matters.

 

[ssddx]

a toilet which does not use water already exists, its called a multrum.

 

[Guest]

Will it use the 3 sea shells?

 

[Guest]

For a couple bucks, any toilet can modified with a simple kit. I installed 2 of them. On the rubber stopper, it can be adjusted from level 1 to 9. Higher number being the standard amount of water used when it is flushed. I have all mine set to 4. This means a full toilet could be flushed several times per tankful. If its yellow, flush and release. If its brown, hold it down (to allow more water for flushing). Im pretty sure its less than ten bucks.

 

[Guest]

Article inverses the population figure who have access to toilets.

The video states that 2.6 billion people DON'T have access to a toilet...not DO have access...

 

[ProDigit10]

From the hit to the shit! Bill found the job of his life!
Creating the shitdigger replacing current crappers, fully automated with MS operating system!
How more crappy can it get?

 

[christop]

I wonder how much is the new toilet is going to cost? 3 grand?

 

[Guest]

It could be called Rear Windows

 

[Assmar]

[citation][nom]IfItsYellowLetItMellow[/nom]For a couple bucks, any toilet can modified with a simple kit. I installed 2 of them. On the rubber stopper, it can be adjusted from level 1 to 9. Higher number being the standard amount of water used when it is flushed. I have all mine set to 4. This means a full toilet could be flushed several times per tankful. If its yellow, flush and release. If its brown, hold it down (to allow more water for flushing). Im pretty sure its less than ten bucks.[/citation]
THat's a great fix for now, for everyone who already has a standard toilet. And I'm sure whatever comes of this (contest?) will help the greater part of the world which still needs sanitation and does not yet have something suitable with which do dispose of human waste.

 

[fyasko]

Bill Gates is the new Thomas Crapper. will this will bring a whole new meaning to the word Gates?

 

[Onus]

Unless this can be done with cheap, readily available "household" chemicals, I think reducing the amount of water needed is likely to make a lot more sense from a conservation perspective, most of the time. Otherwise, I can envision some other sort of [expensive] consumable(s) being required, not to imagine the cost and expertise required to make any needed repairs. A part of the world that is unable to supply even rudimentary plumbing is not likely to possess the means to ensure delivery and replacement of other consumables.

 

[hoof_hearted]

[citation][nom]IfItsYellowLetItMellow[/nom]For a couple bucks, any toilet can modified with a simple kit. I installed 2 of them. On the rubber stopper, it can be adjusted from level 1 to 9. Higher number being the standard amount of water used when it is flushed. I have all mine set to 4. This means a full toilet could be flushed several times per tankful. If its yellow, flush and release. If its brown, hold it down (to allow more water for flushing). Im pretty sure its less than ten bucks.[/citation]

Maybe a high pressure setting for those messy loads. Wouldn't want to leave treadmarks behind.

 

[hoof_hearted]

Now when Bill says he has to "log out" there will be a double meaning.

 

[sliem]

The problem is not the toilet, but the rich bast@rds who waste money like it was dug from backyard.