posted on Nov, 12 2023 @ 05:54 AM
Honestly, there is technology that utilizes human waste of mixed liquid and solid, and also special applications of separated liquid and solid.
There's good 'ole low tech composting that renders the biomass nonpathogenic, just like live culture fermentation of food. Just watch out for toxins
that persist. There's probably nothing better to deal with toxic pollutants in feces than to build compost piles and reforestation.
There's also biogas, harvesting the methane that is generated in the anaerobic microbiome and using it for back yard fuel production.
Urine can be mixed with wood char and the wood char would be excellent for adding to the compost pile for the sheer volume of nitrogen and carbon
already mingling very deeply soaked in a fine porous medium.
They're tricky and would require engineers to pull off on a macro scale but we wouldn't want this on a macro scale, we want these systems in as many
yards as possible, anyway, so as to wean ourselves off foreign energy and foreign produce to survive, don't we?
Maybe a system of economics and infrastructure can be modeled and tested on a small scale for more industrious and capable neighborhooders to produce
enough to sell to other neighborhooders before launching a working system for all neighborhooders to adopt and work hard in the yard and make a decent
living.
We would be technically consuming human waste in vary capacities with these technologies, so with every idea, the sensible response is: Ok, well,
should we? If so, then lets be sure to not screw it up over greed, and then the naysayers will point to the technologies and say, "see how the tree
huggers can solve anything!"
edit on 12-11-2023 by BiothermalReactor because: happy 100 posts in 24 hours lol