(Dagbladet): Microsoft founder Bill Gates has recently spent his time in humanitarian work.
Now supports billionaire company that has developed a machine that makes sewage into drinking water and electricity.
– Could drinking it every day
59-year-old has long been working to provide water for the 700 million people who lack it, and this invention appears to be a good step in the right direction .
– The water tastes just as good as what I’ve got on bottle. And after seeing how it is done, I could no problem drinking it every day, writes Gates on his blog.
Advanced machine
The machine is built by the company Janicki Bioenergy and has been named Omni Processor. It costs around $ 1.5 million, and can treat sewage to a community of around 100,000 people.
– I saw feces roll into the machine, writes Gates on the blog.
video in the upper case, you can see when Gates drinking water that comes out.
The machine boils waste, which makes the water leaves the drying room as steam. When water is in vapor form is filtered, before the water is liquefied and goes through a series of filters.
The second largest cause of death
In countries without modern sewerage collected feces of trucks and dumped in nearby rivers or other dumping sites .
About one billion people still do from themselves out in the open. It can lead to diseases such as diarrhea, which is the second leading cause of death for children under five years.
The machine will initially be tested in Senegal.
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