Introducing
the Omni Processor Microsoft founder,
Bill Gates, of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, came on the set of The
Tonight Show with all-around funnyman
Jimmy Fallon, with a simple proposition
for Fallon: let’s each drink a glass of
water.
Simple right?
Oh… here’s the catch: one of the glasses
contained bottled water, while the other
was very recently fresh sewage , filtered
using Gates’ latest philanthropic effort,
Omni Processor Water Purifier
In retrospect, it seems incredibly obvious
that the solution to the question “how do
we get potable water to all of Africa?”
ended up being this process which
involves high school level chemistry. On
some level it’s very simple, hearkening
back to basic principles that have been
understood for centuries.
How much of a solution are we talking
about? Well according to the Omni
Processor’s website this machine can
process a moving van’s worth of sewage
each day and turn it into 10,800 liters of
water a day. If you use the calculations
from the Institute of Medicine , that’s
enough drinking water to keep 3700
people healthy, per day!
Human beings need about 2.6 liters (11
cups) of water per day to stay healthy.
The energy from the generators seems to
be a bonus! (I could produce enough
energy for 50 small households per year.)
Let’s learn a bit more about the science
behind the Omni Processor
The long and short of water purification
1. When you heat something up to dry it,
pure water is separated in the form of
steam and can be used to drive a
generator creating electricity.
Remember the invention of the steam
engine in the 1800s!
2. To get the heat to dry the feces, they
are burning that same dry waste as
fuel. This is actually nothing new
either; poop burns, and burns well,
and for thousands of years in arid
regions of the planet where there are
no trees for firewood, people have
been collecting, drying and burning
animal dung to cook their food.
3. When the steam circulates through the
generators, you can capture it and
turn it back into liquid water. No
pathogens can survive the
temperatures that the steam goes
through so the water comes out
perfectly safe to drink!
Other than the initial energy needed to dry
that very first batch, it’s a completely
closed loop! (This is something we will be
hearing more and more about as we try
to re-vamp how resources are used on
our planet.)
BILL GATES SIPPING WATER THAT
WAS SEWAGE JUST FIVE MINUTES
PRIOR! SOURCE: GATESNOTES
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