Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets

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Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:32PM from the the-emporer's-new-throne dept.

Julie188 writes "Last summer the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend millions to reinvent the toilet. That investment has born fruit with teams from around the world coming up with many different ways to turn human waste into energy."

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Upgraded toilets by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-22 18:41 · Score: 5, Funny

... now come with a Start button. Blue loo of death, anyone?
1. Re:Upgraded toilets by Joce640k · 2012-02-22 22:24 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "First World Problems", indeed.
  Maybe you could employ an immigrant to wipe your ass for you. Do your bit to help the poor people.
  
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2. Re:Upgraded toilets by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-23 00:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Bill Gates should work on toilets that are more sanitary to use. First if we could avoid wiping with paper this would be awesome.
  1. Visit Japan
  2. Find a supplier
  3. Import modern toilets
  4. Profit!
  Seriously. The Japanese have toilets that automatically wash and blow-dry your ass, and sing to you while they do it.
  Meanwhile, we here in the "civilized West" still shit in porcelain buckets.
MS Windows: Human energy into waste. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-22 18:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Has to be said.
1. Re:MS Windows: Human energy into waste. by Myria · 2012-02-22 22:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend millions to reinvent the toilet. That investment has born fruit
  I'm not sure I want to know what kind of fruit a toilet has to bear.
  
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I don't want to attack Bill Gates. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-22 18:43 · Score: 3, Funny

I don't want to say anything bad about Bill, but this sounds like a pretty shitty idea.
1. Re:I don't want to attack Bill Gates. by SaidinUnleashed · 2012-02-22 19:07 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You mean, other than Windows Me?
  
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2. Re:I don't want to attack Bill Gates. by Volguus+Zildrohar · 2012-02-22 20:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You mean, other than Windows Me?
  ..plus Vista
  Come on guys, don't mock the guy just because his earlier public toilet initiatives were less effective.
  
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Re:Must be missing something... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-22 19:16 · Score: 4, Funny

You mean somebody effluential won't make a profit
Re:Does It Clean Your Asshole? by ChinggisK · 2012-02-23 02:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Bah, you think the RIAA is bad, just you wait until Big Toilet Paper has its business model threatened by modern technology...
Re:Does It Clean Your Asshole? by nedlohs · 2012-02-23 03:46 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't touch my food with my asshole.
Nor do I touch door handles and other things that other people will touch with my asshole.
Nor do I "shake assholes" with people.
What an Unfortunate Choice of Metaphor by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2012-02-23 03:52 · Score: 4, Funny

The article says Gate's toilet efforts have "born fruit".
Yeuagh!
Were these fruit "Dingleberries"?

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