Fellow
Jamaicans, I, Lindsworth Deer, have decide to renounce my Jamaican citizenship
and move to Belgium.
This
as researchers at the University of Ghent have created a water purification
machine that can be used to make fertilizer and beer from urine as noted in the
article “Turning
urine into beer. Yes, that's a thing now”, published July 28, 2016 by Erin
Carson, CNET News.
This
as instead of urine going down the toilet, you can literally piss into their
machine and get water out the other end. The researchers at the University of
Ghent tested their machine, under the slogan #peeforscience which University of
Ghent researcher Sebastiaan Derese called the “Sewer Brewer” at a music
festival in Ghent, Belgium in July, converting some 1,000 liters of water into
the righteous liquid.
Good
to note that this isn’t the first time that this has been attempted; a 2015
music festival in Denmark, the team used urine to fertilize barley to make
beer. Clean Water Services in Oregon even attempted to use recycled toilet
water to make beer. There is even a San Francisco-based Half Moon Bay Brewing
company that uses water recycled from toilets, showers and sinks to make Beer.
So
what makes their tech special?
University of Ghent Solar
Powered Urine to Beer Maker – Solution to the African Water problem
Aside
from making water to make beer, this machine, which is solar powered, has the
potential to end world hunger and solve the Water problem in places like Saudi
Arabia, Asia and Africa as noted in “Urine
Beer - You read that right - is about to become a thing thanks to a Belgian
University”, published July 27, 2016 by Aaron Homer, The Inquisitr.
To
their Credit, Saudi Arabia is already planning to build the world’s largest
Solar Desalination plant in at Al Khafji city in 2017 as described in my blog article
entitled “How
Saudi Arabian Solar Desalination and Solar Distillation can compete with
Traditional Water”.
As
much as this may seem to be a joke, this machine can make some 663 million
people have clean drinking water via what is effectively a water conservation
method similar to recycling Wastewater for drinking as I’d argued in my blog article
entitled “Water
Wastage at MICO - How Waste Water Recycling and Rainwater Harvesting benefits
Agriculture”.
Closer
to home, waste from your urine can then be purified, collected and used as
fertilizer in your home garden as described in my blog article
entitled “How
to Cut Glass Bottles to make a Rooftop Garden Wick-Based Hydroponic System”.
This
could basically solve Jamaica’s Water Crisis, albeit I’d try Rainwater
Harvesting as described in my blog article
entitled “How
NWC’s Water Conservation in Drought 2016 means Rainwater Harvesting with
Digital Meters”
So
how did this idea Kevin Costner WaterWorld Style, Start out?
University of Ghent's
Sewer Brewer - Sports venues or Airports before Africans dying of Thirst
Good
to note that this is the same water that you drink that comes out in your
urine. It’s just purified to make it drinkable.
The
researchers at the University of Ghent basically used the tried and tested
nano-particulate filter technique instead of a reverse osmosis methods as
explained in my blog
article entitled “How
MIT Researchers use White Pine Tree Branches as effective a Xylem Water Filter”
They
used solar energy, most likely from a solar concentrator, to heat water in a
boiler as described in the article “Belgian
scientists make novel water-from-urine machine”, published Wednesday Jul
27, 2016, Reuters.
Then
a nano filter, possibly a xylem filtered is used to filter the water, removing
nutrients like potassium, phosphorous and nitrogen salts and leaving behind
pure potable water. This can then be used for drinking purposes, with hot water
being used to wash away the potassium, phosphorous and nitrogen salts to be
separated and used to make fertilizer.
However,
known Belgians, expect to see this tech at sports venues or airports in the
form of water Cooler.
Or,
more likely, in SodaStream Beer Bar, which is all the rage in Europe to make
homemade beer as described in my blog article
entitled “How
SodaStream Beer Bar makes Home Brewing Easy as US Craft and Big Beer Breweries
will Resist” before it becomes cheap enough to help the Saudi Arabians and
African dying of thirst.
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