Poo Power

[Lord Nepenthean]

http://story.news.yahoo.c...15/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_poo

Science Museum looks to "poo power"

Thu Jul 15, 8:44 AM ET  


LONDON (Reuters) - The Science Museum says it is considering a radical way of paying its hefty energy bills -- using visitors' poo.

 

The central London museum said it was considering taking the waste from its 14 toilet blocks and converting it into electricity.


"With free admission it would be a great way for visitors to give something back to the museum and help keep the overheads down," said the museum's head Jon Tucker. "We have almost 3 million visitors each year and have huge electricity bills."


The museum said the plan would be to siphon off excrement from the toilets, store it and then either burn it as fuel in a mini-power station or turn it into electricity using a microbial fuel cell.


The power produced from the excrement of 100,000 visitors could produce enough to power 500 light bulbs, while also breaking down harmful organic matter, it said.

[Sauza12]

Those wacky scientisits with thier drugs.

[Izret101]

im pretty sure there is already a waste management in some city that when they clean the sewage they have it power turbines for hydroelectric power

[danvx6]

thats some useful shit....

[thx1138]

I don't take a dump in a public toilet though - ever.  Wait till I get home, or back to my hotel etc etc

[Izret101]

i just dont dump... period

[Mike Leon]

There's a public restroom where I work, and one time some guy went in there and shit. Then he smeared the shit all over the walls and wrote words on the mirror with it. Then he took off his clothes and tried to flush them down the toilet, but they just stuck in there. I wouldn't clean it up because they don't pay me enough, and the janitor was off that weekend, so it just sat like that for 3 days.

P.S. I don't ever use public restrooms.

[Arrrhalomynn]

That museum rocks. I normally don't shit in public toilets, but I'll make sure to do it there, if I'm ever there again.

[Izret101]

Evil that is the funniest thing i have heard all day.
Did the guy have like a mental breakdown or was it just for general puposes?