RT.com, January
07, 2015
Screenshot from YouTube user thegatesnotes |
Billionaire
activist Bill Gates is backing an innovation in water filtration that turns
human poop into drinking water. The OmniProcessor could bring clean water to
millions of people and help solve the problem of debilitating diseases.
The OmniProcessor,
designed and built by Seattle engineering firm Janicki Bioenergy, burns human
waste to produce electricity and water. The processor powers itself through the
use of a steam engine and does not emit an odor. The machine could handle 14
tons of waste from 100,000 people, producing up to 86,000 liters of drinkable
water a day, and net 250 kw of electricity.
At a
demonstration of the OmniProcessor shown on GatesNotes, a smiling Bill Gates
drank water from the machine, which was previously untreated sewage.
“It’s
water,” said Gates in the video.
He wrote on
his blog: "The water tasted as good as any I’ve had out of a bottle. And
having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day.
It’s that safe."
Gates said
that 2.5 billion people – or 40 percent of the global population – have no
access to safe sanitation, and many people use facilities that do not safely
dispose of human waste. About 1.5 million children die every year from
contaminated food and water, and half of all patients in hospitals are there
because of problems with water and sanitation. It is extremely costly to try
and create sewage infrastructure in cities and towns that already exist, so
Gates thinks the low cost water treatment machine could be revolutionary.
“If you can get thousands of these things out there, then you’ve ensured the people really will grow up in a healthy way,” Gates told Wired. “They’ll live much higher quality lives. You will save a lot of lives. And you’ll have local entrepreneurs who are maintaining these things.”
Screenshot from YouTube user thegatesnotes |
“If you can get thousands of these things out there, then you’ve ensured the people really will grow up in a healthy way,” Gates told Wired. “They’ll live much higher quality lives. You will save a lot of lives. And you’ll have local entrepreneurs who are maintaining these things.”
The
OmniProcessor, which costs $1.5 million, will undergo a pilot launch in Dakar,
Senegal later this year.
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"2013 - What Now ?" – Jan 6, 2013 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Text version)
"2013 - What Now ?" – Jan 6, 2013 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Text version)
“… New ideas are things you never thought of. These ideas will be given to you so you will have answers to the most profound questions that your societies have had since you were born. Inventions will bring clean water to every Human on the planet, cheaply and everywhere. Inventions will give you power, cheaply and everywhere. These ideas will wipe out all of the reasons you now have for pollution, and when you look back on it, you'll go, "This solution was always there. Why didn't we think of that? Why didn't we do this sooner?" Because it wasn't time and you were not ready. You hadn't planted the seeds and you were still battling the old energy, deciding whether you were going to terminate yourselves before 2012. Now you didn't…. and now you didn't.
It's funny, what you ponder about, and what your sociologists consider the "great current problems of mankind", for your new ideas will simply eliminate the very concepts of the questions just as they did in the past. Do you remember? Two hundred years ago, the predictions of sociologists said that you would run out of food, since there wasn't enough land to sustain a greater population. Then you discovered crop rotation and fertilizer. Suddenly, each plot of land could produce many times what it could before. Do you remember the predictions that you would run out of wood to heat your homes? Probably not. That was before electricity. It goes on and on.
So today's puzzles are just as quaint, as you will see. (1)How do you strengthen the power grids of your great nations so that they are not vulnerable to failure or don't require massive infrastructure improvement expenditures? Because cold is coming, and you are going to need more power. (2) What can you do about pollution? (3) What about world overpopulation? Some experts will tell you that a pandemic will be the answer; nature [Gaia] will kill off about one-third of the earth's population. The best minds of the century ponder these puzzles and tell you that you are headed for real problems. You have heard these things all your life.
Let me ask you this. (1) What if you could eliminate the power grid altogether? You can and will. (2) What if pollution-creating sources simply go away, due to new ideas and invention, and the environment starts to self-correct? (3) Overpopulation? You assume that humanity will continue to have children at an exponential rate since they are stupid and can't help themselves. This, dear ones, is a consciousness and education issue, and that is going to change. Imagine a zero growth attribute of many countries - something that will be common. Did you notice that some of your children today are actually starting to ponder if they should have any children at all? What a concept! ….”
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