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Machine to make drinking water from toilet waste
Sunday April 08, 2012 09:36:50 AM,
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London: A new
invention, being funded by billionaire Bill Gates, aims to turn
used toilet water into drinking water, a British nanotechnology
expert says.
According to Manchester University's Sarah Haigh, the invention
could make waste water from toilets safe to drink, the Daily Mail
reported.
She believes a new range of materials could extract energy from
human waste.
The innovation could transform the lives of millions of people in
the Third World.
The researcher says, even if the result may not be bottled mineral
water but it could be the difference between life-and-death in
regions without clean water.
She said: "I get a lot of comments about the research I do. I
don't mind people making jokes as long as they're clean ones.
"There has been a lot of research into biofuels. There is a lot of
energy already present in human waste. Nano-scale materials mean
that you can harvest the hydrogen and turn it into hydrozene -
which is basically rocket fuel."
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