Powerful Poop

A bus service started in the UK last year transporting 10000 persons per month from the Bristol airport to the city of bath but the thing which draws our attention is that the bus is powered by poop(human waste) for fuel, the city have enough people that there will be no shortage of fuel ever, the bus can travel a distance of 186 miles with the annual poop of just 5 people. Nasa is planning to go one step further, it is trying to get the fuel used for rockets which will be a great step in space industry as the fuel is a major challenge which stops us from covering large distances in space. I can assure you that today only you have flushed a tremendous source of power which could help the world in overcoming is power problems. As the technology grows our rate of power consumption is increasing rapidly and there is shortage of fuels like gasoline, diesel, natural gas etc, but there is one source that will last till the humans will last and it is your poop. An average person produces 360 pounds of poop in an year and if it is treated and used it could be enough to meet the basic power requirements of an individual. The food which we eat contains energy but all is not utilised by our body and is rejected in form of poop and this can be used again to extract the energy. A lot of technologies are working in this field and some have developed method of converting poop into energy which could be used as heat or work.

In India people uses cow dung as a source of fuel for the past 20 years or more where the dung is transported to a closed pit where it is allowed to degedrade which produces methane gas which is used for daily household work like cooking, heating, electricity etc. The same could be done from human poop but you need to forget about it while using it for cooking or heating. There are various companies like Black Gold Biofuel which process and converts poop into solid fuel which could be used to replace coal as a source of power. The Bioengineers at Oregon State University (OSU) have developed a microbial fuel cell that can treat waste water — and generate significant amounts of electricity at the same time. Consider what amount of energy can we produce of all the poop of 7 billion people can be used, wouldn't that be so stinky.