Posted on 01/02/2018 12:41:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
The UK is now home to a dog waste-powered street lamp that creates electricity using canine deposits. After a vigorous walk in the Malvern Hills, walkers can deposit their dog's stool in the washing machine-like contraption which is attached to a lamp. It is then broken down by microorganisms to produce methane for the light and fertiliser for farmers.
Ten bags of poop in this anaerobic digestor can power the light for two hours, the creator claims, and could spell the end for plump little bags littering roadside verges. Brian Harper, who came up with the idea of the machine three years ago, has created the innovative light near Malvern Hills in Worcestershire with the help of funding from the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 'The gas light captures people's imagination and shows them dog poo has a value,' Mr Harper, from community environmental group Transition Malvern Hills, told the Guardian. 'As a result, we get it [poo] off the ground, into a receptacle, and producing something useful.'
Dog walkers have to deposit their bag of excrement in the small machine which is attached to the lamppost and then turn the handle. As it is heated and mixed in the anaerobic digestor the poo gives off biomethane which produces electricity to power the light.
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Once the constituents vote human waste into office it’s only a matter of time before it clutters the walkways.
We can go back to the gaslight era. Thats progressive thinking
Just dog poop? If it cann handle human poop, they might like it in San Francisco!
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The problem is getting someone to put it in the container.
All this spurred on by the UK’s fanatical adherence to the Warmunist theology.
They need that to dispose of all the crap left on sidewalks By bums in San Fran Sicko.
San Francisco should look into this for all the human waste on the streets.
Powered by unicorn farts no doubt.
Cute idea, but at what expense??? I doubt this kind of thing will ever pay for itself. If not, it is just feel-good posturing.
great minds
No that can’t be real. Really?
Seems like it would be a bit messy on the skirt, BTW.
“Good Boy!”
It’s not going to be 100% combustion, so some high-paid City supervisor will still have to tell some schmuck to clean out the shitoons once a week or so.
See “Anerobic digester”. Proven technology.
https://small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable-living.com/methane_generator/
A dairy farmer I know produces enough biogas to run his whole operation and sell the excess back to the power company.
they might like it in San Francisco!
“Here darling - I knitted this in the bathroom for you”.
I remember when Cosmo Kramer prepared a meal in the shower while bathing.
Very silly idea. Assumes a constant rate of poop supplied after dark, when most people walk thier dogs in the daytime. The most they’ll get is an occasional light, and after the novelty wears off, none at all.
As a dog walker myself, I’d rather pack my poop out in my own bag than walk to where ever this silly lamp is, only to walk back into the dark to go home. DOH! The cost of the things won’t be worth the occasional glow.
Very silly idea. Assumes a constant rate of poop supplied after dark, when most people walk thier dogs in the daytime. The most they’ll get is an occasional light, and after the novelty wears off, none at all.
As a dog walker myself, I’d rather pack my poop out in my own bag than walk to where ever this silly lamp is, only to walk back into the dark to go home. DOH! The cost of the things won’t be worth the occasional glow.
Yeah, but it does get rid of the poo....
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