New toilet technology after 150 years of waste
Boston Globe Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:39 PM PDT
These aren't your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal. |
Bill Gates' foundation puts money on solar-powered toilet
Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:38 PM PDT
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Bill Gates is betting the toilet of the future for the developing world will be solar powered. The world's leading private philanthropist handed a $100,000 prize to the California Institute of Technology on Tuesday for its work on a self-contained, sun-powered system that recycles water and breaks down human waste into storable energy. Gates is focusing on the need for a new ... |
Paladin shares soar on uranium deal
Brisbane Times Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:36 PM PDT
Shares in Paladin Energy soar on a uranium supply deal, as investors see progress in the company's battle to meet looming debt obligations. |
Energy Bus Stops In Bismarck
KX TV North Dakota Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:35 PM PDT
You may have noticed an unfamiliar bus driving through the streets of Bismarck Tuesday. |
Saving on your energy bill is a library trip away
KGET 17 Bakersfield Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:34 PM PDT
Conserve power. That's the message from PG&E as the valley remains under a Flex Alert facing more triple-digit heat. While the company is asking customers to conserve, they are offering ways for you to cut costs. All you need is a library card. Shirley Mellin listened as local PG&E representatives demonstrate the Kill-A-Watt Meter at a local library on Tuesday. The meters are now available to ... |
Lovejoy Streets to Get Million-Dollar Makeover
WGRZ-TV Buffalo Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:34 PM PDT
BUFFALO, NY - A million-dollar streetscape project scheduled to begin next spring in the city's Lovejoy neighborhood will include the replacement of existing street lighting with energy-saving LED lights; reconstruction of curbs, sidewalks and gutters; and new handicap-accessible walkways. |
NM regulators approve PNM charge for renewables
KOB 4 Albuquerque Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:31 PM PDT
New Mexico regulators have approved a request by the state's largest electric provider to add a charge to customers' bills to pay for renewable energy. |
Seamus the Dog Gets a Revival Thanks to Devo and Obama
The Atlantic Wire Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:26 PM PDT
Remember when Mitt Romney's old roof-riding, diarrhea-suffering dog, Seamus , was a thing? He even made the cover of the New Yorker ! He got a small revival today thanks to a speech President Obama gave in Iowa, and Devo. Yes, Devo. Obama was trying to sell Iowans on windmills and the importance of extending the tax credits for wind energy producers when he totally went there . Mitt Romney doesn ... |
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New toilet technology after 150 years of waste - Boston.com
Boston Globe Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:22 PM PDT
Bill Gates, right, looks at a device that uses solar energy to treat human waste, as he tours the "Reinventing the Toliet" Fair, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Seattle, which is part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.6 billion people around the world who don't have access to modern sanitation. |
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