{"id":13393,"date":"2012-10-24t12:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-24t12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/no-pooh-poohing-caltechs-solar-sanitation-system\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28t18:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28t18:46:25","slug":"no-pooh-poohing-caltechs-solar-sanitation-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/no-pooh-poohing-caltechs-solar-sanitation-system\/","title":{"rendered":"no pooh-poohing caltech&#8217;s solar sanitation system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>researchers from the california institute of technology have created a prototype for a solar-powered sanitation system that can be used in remote parts of the planet that are not currently served by municipal sewage systems. caltech&#8217;s prototype, which won <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/08\/16\/toilet-of-the-future-caltech-solar-powered-toilet-video-photos_n_1791874.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first place in the reinventing the toilet challenge<\/a><\/u> hosted by the bill &#038; melinda gates foundation, uses the sun to power an electrochemical reactor. the reactor breaks down water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen which can be stored in hydrogen fuel cells as energy. the treated water can then be reused to flush the toilet or for irrigation. the research team is working on a second-generation prototype with the goal of developing a robust, scaleable system that is ready to use all over the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>researchers from the california institute of technology have created a prototype for a solar-powered sanitation system that can be used in remote parts of the planet that are not currently served by municipal sewage systems. caltech&#8217;s prototype, which won first place in the reinventing the toilet challenge hosted by the bill &#038; melinda gates foundation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4894,4917,4898,4900,4909,4910,4891,4904],"tags":[2347,1793,1837,58,2924,363,1796,2971],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-efficiency","category-energy","category-engineering","category-green-living","category-public-health","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-water","tag-california-institute-of-technology","tag-fertilizer","tag-fuel-cells","tag-hydrogen","tag-poop","tag-public-health","tag-sanitation","tag-toilets"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>no pooh-poohing caltech&#039;s solar sanitation system - planet forward<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/no-pooh-poohing-caltechs-solar-sanitation-system\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"no pooh-poohing caltech&#039;s solar sanitation system - planet forward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"researchers from the california institute of technology have created a prototype for a solar-powered sanitation system that can be used in remote parts of the planet that are not currently served by municipal sewage systems. caltech&#8217;s prototype, which won first place in the reinventing the toilet challenge hosted by the bill &#038; 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