position:professor of environmental engineering

CU-Boulder develop Innovative solar-powered toilet - Medical News Today
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“The self-contained, waterless toilet, designed and built using a $777,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has the capability of heating human waste to a high enough temperature to sterilize human waste and create biochar, a highly porous charcoal, said project principal investigator Karl Linden, professor of environmental engineering. The biochar has a one-two punch in that it can be used to both increase crop yields and sequester carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.” - (...)

transformer la merde en pétrole : Human waste could be biofuel - CSMonitor.com
►http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2011/0615/Human-waste-could-be-biofuel

a Columbia University professor of environmental engineering has teamed up with a social enterprise in Accra, Ghana, to turn “fecal sludge” into biodiesel or methane fuel. The project, called the “Next-Generation Urban Sanitation Facility,” is in cooperation with Waste Enterprisers and is being underwritten by a recently announced $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

#sanitation #énergie #santé