Top 5 Crazy innovations for Reusing Waste
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- Top 5 Crazy innovations for Reusing Waste. Get an exclusive Surfshark deal! Enter promo code UNDECIDED for an extra 3 months free at surfshark.deals/undecided. The saying goes that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” and as we speak, researchers around the globe are experimenting with taking this phrase literally. Right now, it’s possible to turn waste from brewing beer into batteries and to generate electricity from wastewater. There’s a lot of projects showing that practically no kind of waste is off-limits…including what our own bodies produce. I mean … there’s no shortage of waste, right? But there’s also no shortage of innovation for reusing it either. So, we’re not onto flying cars quite yet, but how close are we to Mr. Fusion? Let’s take a look at the top 5 craziest ideas for turning trash into treasure.
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As raw resources dwindle technologies like this will be mandatory! Kudos to Japan for utilizing human waste.
Pls add Persian sub to your videos
Have driven plenty of lemons in my day :-)
i always thought the issue with using human waste for fertilizers was Prion diseases.
I hope you're making a video about the new room temp superconductors because that shit will change the world and is so god damn interesting.
These videos make me feel a little better about the future, which is much needed after watching the news on a regular basis.
Agreed.
Matt, I work for a water treatment company in Central America. We implemented a combined coagulation flocculation, advanced oxidation, and anaerobic biodigestion treatment plant for a small brewery in El Salvador. The potential methane yield from the brewery waste water is enormous. Unfortunately we do not have experience with harvesting the generated biogas, but it is a very high quality gas, especially thanks to the advanced oxidation step before the bio reactors.
Also, hopefully in the future anaerobic bioreactors can be turned into MFCs to self sustain an electro-fenton Advanced oxidation reaction. That would be the holy grail for water treatment!
Focus on capture of the methane to use as a fuel to power a portion of the machinery used in your treatment process. I've seen large domes over the modules generating the methane for this used to great effect.
If fusion is always 20 years away, it is not an underexaggeration to say MFCs are always 50 years away. I suggest you read some papers on the long, long list of their limitations, which should drive home how they will never get to a point of usefulness like we e vision they could be.
The US generates 10 million (2000lbs, not 1000kg)tons per year of BSG (20 billion pounds).. But that is the wet weight. It's probably on the order of 60% water. So it's more like six megatons.
People just don't understand the scale of our resource usage. The poo sounds good, but it's not. The average person excretes 320lbs wet pounds per year. Poo is 75% water. 320lbs time 320 million people 51.2 million wet tons. So the total amount of dry poo per year in the US counting all 320 million souls is 12.8 million tons (2000 lb ton). This is not enough to fertilize just the portion of corn we grow into ethanol to put in gasoline.
Don't they have a system like that that harvests the gas for power generation in London England ?
Anaerobic disgestors are super cool! I’ve always been curious how much methane you could produce if you were to collect a communities waste food and biomass. If you could collect enough, it could be a great source of energy for heating
@@joecur94 Yeah, there are statistics for how many people’s discharges you need to get enough yield and for it to make economic sense, but it is absolutely possible, especially in tropical countries where the temperature is very favorable for anaerobic biodigestion!
One of my first experiences upon arriving in South Korea was the smell of human feces in the rice paddies in April. That was nearly 35 years ago and had been the norm for generations. Flushing toilet paper was discouraged since it was difficult to separate out during waste treatment - you were expected to toss the paper in a trash can instead.
Toilet paper in a bin is still a thing, although I was told it was due to plumbing issues - interesting to hear this alternative reason!
Washlette Bidets are better anyway.
Great to see you putting some effort into a more circular approach to the waste we generate. Keep these topics up!
Wow, I really liked the bark source for a glue replacement! Lumber is king where I live so this is a huge deal. It can effect everyone on the planet through their furniture. I don't see how that could work with hardwoods but softwoods have gummy barks that surely could work for this.
Also I use humanure and it is good but I only grow animal food with it. rabbit grass to be exact. Then I eat the rabbits and use their manure for our garden. I think it is good to have a little bit of a bigger circle of life. Human to plant to human is a pretty small circle
I converted an outhouse to a humanure collector a few years ago. It only gets used a few months a year. I plan to just leave the mature (2 year old) compost in the woods.
Relocalization of food is one huge step, letting livestock eat culls, crop residues, and manage weeds, pests and fertility in polycropping systems especially using food producing trees, shrubs, vines and perennials would greatly reduce much of the mess. Surpluses could be shipped out for larger markets, preferably by rail.
Using rail would reduce water runoff, and add system efficirncy.
Love hydrochar for dealing with human waste.
We also waste a lot of water, rainwater is often mixed with sewage and gors directly to the watertable without treatment during heavy rain events in many cities. Runoff from roads and parking lots could instead be diverted to landscaped bioswales instead of using a separate water source..
Raw bark makes a great fuel, when oriented correctly in a fireplace or stove.
Not all innovations are good, but many of the innovations in this video may be workable compared to many others.
You did not mention my favorite, thermal depolymerization. It is great for dealing with organic waste (turkey offal) and municipal sewer waste. Totally scalable.
I appreciate your optimism for future technology!
#1 - Milorganite (Milwaukee Organic Nitrogen) has been around since the 1920s, produced at the Milwaukee sewage treatment plant. Very common in the midwest.
The thing I've been anticipating for years now is that we will start digging up landfills and processing them for the base resources because; we can, we should, and it will tidy up the environment.
If we were on a generational space ship traveling towards some other destination in the universe, we'd want to recycle everything. Thing is, we basically *are*.
Well it's a long step away from the disposable society we live in at present we don't even up cycle or recycle phones that get dumped as we can't change batteries and throw away vapes and bottled water.
Earth is our generational space station. Recycling should be so common that it replaces the word trash entirely. Science needs to advance so that costs to recycle go down and becomes profitable. Otherwise, it won't be integrated into the economy as much as it should be. Beer powered society lol ❤🙏
@@SlyerFox666 he means the earth is basically a space ship.
@@ge2719 what do you mean "he means" we are ? And what also gave you the impression that that went over my head when it is literally written 🤷🏼♂️
@@SlyerFox666 well for one thing the op said nothing about society, or disposable society, or recycling, or single use product, or anything relating to anything you said. The op merely said earth is essentially already a multi generational space ship hurtling through space.
the op say " we basically *are*..." is not them referring to the "we'd want to recycle everything". that YOU replied to.
So the specific part of the quote the op was referencing clearly did go over your head.
1. Biofuels like ethanol and biogas from agri waste
2. Plastic pyrolysis.
3. Better logistics systems to reduce material waste during transit.
These two are important to reduce waste generation, thus helping the in solving the issue at its source itself.
yes to all of this. The only thing that would give me hangups is if there are big drawbacks to conventional methods of today. What can alleviate a hangup is actions taken to nullify or reduce the drawbacks impact. Say the organic dashboard has a lifespan of 5 to 10 years. Create a market for replacements and make it accessible and affordable at both initial purchase and recurrent maintenance. Some of the issues we have today with part availability and supply chain is that everything seems to have it's own specific part. What's worse is when the part is needed for a very easy home repair but there are no direct to consumer avenues, only ebay or Amazon. All of these problems are by design by the way.
I agree with making consumer products last longer (well-built) but also this suggestion of letting us tinker with our stuff or train people to fix machines/electronics (especially tech). Why does every manufacturer have different parts? Can't we get consistency in the world with all parts? I think the UN should propose this. Why not have plug and play items that work globally? 😊
RE: BARBARA -- I'm starting a new organization: Ban Acronyms Real Fast. And, thanks Matt for another great video.
Ha! Glad you liked it … and yes, that acronym is crazy.
Although canola oil in ones gas tank is probably not a good idea, I used several tanks full of rancid peanut oil in my 1984 Nissan diesel. The owner manual included a chapter on not petroleum fuel products that would power the engine. Is some communities it’s possible to smell fried foods as filtered used cooking oil powers personal vehicles.
Wishing you and your family a blessed week filled with gentle rains, seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together in your new home. Peace
As someone who worked on microbial fuel cells as part of my graduate work, scale is indeed the problem. To point where I can say with confidence that the probability they ever become viable is nearly zero. An MFC size of a basketball provides less energy than a low power button battery and requires frequent maintenance due to natural degradation of the cells performing the transformation, and that is nigh impossible to improve. Hundreds of people have been trying for decades in the lab I worked in alone. Basically they exist in a constant point of near failure. Additionally, they require precious metal electrodes to achieve even that poor level of performance. It flashy and interesting on paper to those that dont understand the technology, but there many other options worth investing time and money into than MFCs.
I am 100% onboard with all of these innovations. I use chicken & goat poo in my garden compost so why wouldn't I use my own waste? I eat a lot of veggies so my poo is probably cleaner than my chickens' since they, as dino descendants, eat anything. Meat, eggs, grubs, grains, plants, dirt, and their own poo while scrounging for food. I bet most people don't realize all the animals, insects, microorganisms, that poo in their gardens.😂 I also like anything that saves water or gets rid of plastics. We say the fossil fuel industry adverts convince us we'll die without cars but plastic corps do the same with plastic products. Just Have A Think has a great new video about using closed loop hydro storage and I wondered if you can use a ram pump and solar pump in a residential set up. Malaysia uses towers for water pressure in household water storage tanks...so many good videos, research, and innovation!❤
Tree bark is used for soil covering, preventing weed growth in flowering gardens.
A deeper dive would be helpful for subscribers on how spent grains or ag waste is "converted" or processed into a usable syn gas/liquids (petro chemical replacements) and/or carbon feedstock for batteries and automotive parts. Likely it is done through Pyrolysis or Oxidation which are high energy and heat (without air so not defined as combustion process) processes. So for groans - using as animal feed is actually a higher and better end use for spent grains from both an environmental (Lifecyle) and economic perspective. Regarding producing plastic from Ag waste, the story is similar with twist. The ag waste is again processed through either Pyrolysis or Oxidation with the addition of possibly distilling. These processes produce an Petro equivalent ethylene or chemical feedstock that while is a substitute for fossil fuels feedstocks produces polymers that are the same -- think of coca cola's bioplastic bottle as an example. These plastics are biodegradable (as are all plastics) but may take 100-10,000 years unless an additive is added. Also keep in mind biograde doe snot mean it degrades into its carbon bases but biodegrade into smaller pieces -- i.e. microplastics. Use of this term should be defined and is a flag for greenwashing of environmental claims that FTC evaluates and regulates. There is two types of bio based plastics that can be composted (an active and aerobic (not anaerobic - methane producing) version of biodegradation) - pha and php's (think of a compostable certified (BPI) plastic cup) into its carbon components but is unlikely, for a number of properties, that it would be used in automotive parts. The lemon or other smell is an additive (not a reflection of the feedstock) and VOCs would still be emitted just masked. Also -- there are many environmental impacts (carbon and ecological) and social associated with growing crops for fuels (same for plastic alternatives) that must be accounted for. Similarly, for ag waste, the better alternative is to either use an animal feed or compost back into rich organics content and amendments for agricultural use (that can also be a “soil based” carbon sequester accelerator as a regenerative ag application). I do like the idea of using automotive fluff as a feedstock. However, it cannot be mechanically recycled so will go through the conversion (chemical recycling) processes I referenced above. Fluff also contains several “forever chemicals” PCP’s and PFAS/PFOS used as flame retardants and etc that are highly toxic that will need to be addressed. I am not aware of any technology available to process. These chemicals have been and are being replaced but will take decades to get out of the supply chain (end of life automotive processing). So I suggest some context in finding better ways to manage wastes and end of life management. The better answer and context in my view is to focus on responsible consumption (we cannot “recycle” our way to carbon reduction and climate action) of which recycling is one of but may not be best or highest option, that lifecycle impact of materials (including end of life management) be employed in the production of good and services, there is standardization and transparency on multi attributional impacts and benefits that allow the consumer and society at large have a voice on values and an informed choice on the tradeoffs. Lastly, there is an economic challenge and who will pay for end-of-life management that we as both consumers and rate payers (waste, water and sewage fees that are paid for as taxpayers or through service fees to publicly owned utilities). This remains a current, open and contentious policy discussion. Extended producer responsibility frameworks and chemical recycling subsidies (for consumer product, plastic and Petro industries) are two examples that come to mind.
I would like to support these reusing waste innovations
We used to grow cherry trees over the septic outflow of the little holiday centre in Greece; the crop was magnificent!
The advertising campaign 'When you think of our vehicles, think lemons' might fail.
Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge! I am so grateful to have found your channel- have learned a lot....
Good gamble on number one, last one was a straight flush.
My cousin is a bio engineer here in Germany and they are studio some damn interesting methods of gaining energy from waste water… fascinating 👋
Ask him about farts 💨
😱😱😱 I don’t believe there is none about farts 😱😱😱 Farts r methane gas. There gotta be some way to take advantage of our farts 💨
Hi Matt I have been watching your videos for years now, and so many promising things come and go and well, I think i wouldn't be alone in asking you for an honest appraisal in where we are in clean renewable energy as it seems like we haven't figured it out, but you are really one of the best people to answer this. If you could consider making a video like this, it would be so appreciated. Much love to you and to all the subscribers who love watching energy content.
Could you perhaps provides links to the whitepapers you reference in your videos? I love reading them after the video, but usually just rewatch it and search the title / authors.
At about 1:30 in a combine is shown at work scattering mulch in its wake with the voice-over talking about waste. The chopped stalks aren't the waste and spillage is minimal because that would reduce income. In decades past, it was common to not scatter the part of the grass not gleaned by the machine, but farmers aren't stupid, so they had the manufacturers include chopping and spreading the mulch to the machinery. They can empty the hopper of grain into trucks driving along-side in order to reduce the fuel that would be spent while stationary to auger it out. (Doing so reduces the amount of time in the field burning more fuel.
It has been written that an appropriate mix for feeding plants is to urinate once into each five (5) U.S. gal. of water, sourced from rain runoff, of course. Go organic farmers!
7:25 To get closer to the pronunciation, you could read it as 'prowst' to get the 'O', like in Homer's "Doh!". :)
D’oh is about right … I butchered that pronunciation. 😂
@@UndecidedMF You could have been saying the last name of the French formula one driver, Alain Prost. 😉
there is a beautiful technique developed in austria. they leach lignine out of bark and create a solid foam much like styrofoam (but it is brown). works well as a thermal insulation for homes, and lignine is very flame retardent, which is good because styrofoam is not.
and that stuff is dirtcheap and carbonneutral.
One of the reasons I like this channel is it provides high quality multi-lingual translation (e.g. Chinese), it helps none English speaker has limited knowledge of scientific terms understand the content much better and easier. Thank you!
Hey Matt! as always a pleasure! just a heads up here since you pronounced "Prost" as the word "Frost", you have to change that honestly xD The authentic pronounciation is much closer to "Post" allthough I think you have to look up the real O sound online, tbh I couldn't think of a really good example xD Enjoy your tuesday!
1. Human Waste Fertilizer 2:06
2. Beer Batteries 6:29
3. Bark For Glue-Free Panels 8:04
4. Agricultural Waste For Car Parts Made 9:53
5. Microbial Fuel Cells 11:45
Can we make robots with AI using bacteria electric production so that we do not want to charge them.. excellent and precise explanation
extremely interesting stuff with the bonus of well-placed puns. Love the content
My city composts our food and sewage waste into nutrient rich soil that sells out in the summer. I use it in all my gardening.
I've never seen someone who likes more puns than Matt 😆
I am always looking for excuses to comment and feed the algo. "Prost" is pronounced with a long "O." : ) Also, this is all great news! All we have to do now is actually adopt these developments instead of resisting them.
I saw an article an article on a technology that surprised me. Maybe you could put out a video providing more details. The topic was rain panels, creating energy out of falling rain.
Honestly waste just isn’t really an issue. We aren’t running out of places to put waste, it’s just improper disposal of waste that leads to say plastic in the oceans. Rather than find how we can reuse something to make batteries, it’s much for effective and better for the planet and society if we took that money and research and just looked at how to just make batteries better without using recycled material. The only way recycling really makes sense is if pollutes less and is more cost efficient/effective, which 90% of the times it’s not
If you go by that perspective then the big point of recycling is reduction of needed new materials.
There is so much cool engineering in this video. I feel like I am going to need to rewatch this one a few times to get my head around everything you discussed.
I have made olive oil. It is one of the most natural products in the world. You pick the olives, crush them with huge rolling granite stones and the result is the most delicious olive oil! No water added, apart from what I needed to drink during the picking phase 😅.
Great vid. Thank you. I wonder if more beer was sold due to saying "I need fuel"?
Thank you and good morning!
Also, as Matt noted at 11:00, let's all keep in mind that 3d printing is yet another potential avenue for cool and crazy stuff to happen!
Thank you for your excellent, interesting, and useful productions. I'm proud to be able to recommend them to others.
My local wastewater plant here in Springfield MO has been supplying people with human waste fertilizer for years.
If you go to rural Russia, they often use dry toilets which is essentially a hole in the first floor barn of the house and the poo drops onto a manure heap below near where the animals are kept. they wait till winter when it freezes then break it up with picks etc and scatter it over the garden/field where they grow their potatoes and veg. this then breaks down over the winter spring and is dug in before planting. The real problem with using human waste is the chemicals we consume and that can build up in a closed loop if we keep re-using it for human food production
Srom a gardening perspective I would love to see a look into Biochar.
Interesting idea for using human waste as fertilizer. Are they extracting the materials out of sewage or direct extraction? The first will be relatively easy to implement, the second would require sociatal changes. Also, how are they handling the infection risk? One of the hazards of using human waste as fertilizer is someone getting infected and spreading the disease to others via the recycled food chain. Personally I'd use radiation to sterilize but that will cause the environmentalists to freak out.
Possible future technologies, keep up the good work.
One problem with using human waste as fertilizer in the west is that so many of us are taking medications for various ailments and that could end up in all of us being overmedicated just by eating the produce grown from it. It's already a problem in the water supply of many urban areas.
Matt can you do a video on LK-99 Superconductors .... i can not get an honest view on the subject love your videos
Thank you
Milwaukee has been doing this for a century. But it has not been used on food crops. It is used mostly on golf courses. It's called Milorganite.
Item #4, Rodents love car wiring who's insulation is made from plant sources.
This is the sort of news I was expecting to hear and expect to hear a lot more. As the climate change situation crossed the line to where it will get worse before it gets better, we're entering an arms race to be cleaner, greener, generally embrace the eco-punk vibe because our way of life is going to hit a wall sooner or later if we don't.
the second of 3 sections about (b.a.t.e.s.) The easiest example I can think of would-be cars, there may be some money in scrap metal, but there is no money in disassembly, and to correct this I suggest a £500 bond is payable to the (D.V.L.A.) when a vehicle is first registered in the U.K. (Other national vehicle registration departments are available) The bond is then held until the vehicle has reached the end of its useful life, then the bond will be redeemable by a disassembly company, only when the vehicle has passed down a disassembly line and has been broken down to its most basic components and not just crushed, this means everything removed, doors, bonnet, boot and separated from their padding and electricals, seating, carpets, and roof lining, plastic dash-Panel, and wiring loom removed, even the engine/ gearbox and suspension system to be separated into their various metallic alloys, and even the generator and starter motor, in the future this would include vehicle motive batteries and fuel cells, all to be disassembled.
It would not matter Where in the world the car was made, once it is registered in the U.K. a bond must be bought, and all manufactures who wish to sell into the U.K.
would have to supply the Disassembly companies with a protocol out lining the easiest methods of disassembly.
Problems and benefits of the idea so far, even a cheap car cost £15,000, so how do we manage to disassemble for just £500. Well to start with you do not need a design team or an advertising budget, neither do you have the cost of manufacturing components from freshly bought new raw materials, and if you consider it takes between 20 and 40 hours depending on the efficiency of the
plant for a shell to travel down an assembly line to become a completed vehicle, it should take about the same amount of time to disassemble, and £500 is about the wage for forty hours of a low to medium skilled worker.
And it will be MANUAL labour that will be required, robots are perfect for assembling pristine new components, but after ten or fifteen years of corrosion
disassembly might be beyond them; one option could be to repurpose old car production plants that are due to be decommissioned.
The bond for a washing machine, fridge or solar panel would be much less may be £20 as they should be much simpler to disassemble. O.K. disassembly might work,
but the problem is with the bond idea, as it stands you would have a ten or fifteen-year time lag before such a system would be up and running, true but this is where
the governments come in, they could pump prime, if the government paid out a sum equal to a bond for each scrapped car in the first year, the bonds collected on all
new cars in the first year, would then go on to pay for the disassembling of cars in the second year, in the same way that today’s state pensions are paid for by today`s
workers, and when today`s workers retire, their state pension will be paid for by the next generation of workers. For a one-off payment the government could start a
whole new disassembly industry, providing employment for thousands, ensuring a continuous supply of recycled material with minimum contamination as part of a
sustainable future.
Repurpose: Use the flexible Starbucks coffee bag closure strips for cable wraps. We all have more cables than we can manage and these wraps can tidy things up in an instant.
Already faecable... nr two on my list... Hilarious! Shoutout from Gothenburg, Sweden.
id love to see the ''fluff'' plastic from waste treatment used as a source for activated carbon or even just as tar for roads and shingles etc. as well as all the plastic waste from industries like off cuts and distribution packaging.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Definitely sounds like some good shit !!
13:56 Yes
There is a biofuel source that is not being given attention: cellulosis waste.
You can produce dymethil eter from that. It's cleaner than diesel.
The problem with 'real' fertilizers (at least in the Netherlands):
Cost
I wanted to get some fertilizer for the garden. At first I was looking at chicken dung / cow dung. Both seemed good options.
I was naively thinking that apart from fitting the best in the circular economy, these probably would be the cheapest as well, especially since there is big problem with a manure surplus in the Netherlands anyway.
Nope. Dried manure is at best the same price of (chemical) fertilizer, however, the chemical fertilizer was ten times as potent.
That made sustainabilty a bit too expensive for my taste, I will try again in a few years when I run out of the chemical fertilizer.
I'll see you in Vancouver
I would still try to break down the compounds that are in the fertilizer that came from human waste even if the dosage is really low.
Oh, the puns! The puns! They were fantastic as was the content, as usual.
1:45 products should be engineered for longevity not repairablility ore recyclability. For example, good oil based paint for cars instead of water paint.
Prions are a good argument for not using animal wastes for any foods. Prions cannot be removed save by extremely high temperatures.
Methan from poop=power.
Also big buildings with big tall walls ya there potentially space for solar there.
But unfortunately the best way to save energy nobody is willing to do.
What is it well better insulation r50 min would reduce energy demand in a city by a lot.
Also any new building and any new renovation to a old building should be required to increase insulation to r50.
Yes I understand r50 is a lot but I'm in nv with r55 and I've used my ac 7 times this year and it's been over 100f for 3 weeks.
Also it was over 110f for 1 week.
Also pine tree sap is extremely sticky why not use it as a natural glue for those wood bark plats but I'm sure there more sticky sap out there too.
Gardening and farming has historically used fecal matter, urine (ak. manure), and plant matter.
Thanks Matt. Cheers! 🍺🍺
If you use the beer biomass for batteries, don't we have to replace the animal feed that it's no longer being used for? Or is there enough stock to cover both consumers?
Let's eat veggies with our beer instead.😅😂❤I saw a great fried zucchini recipe that would be crispy and delicious with a cold one.
Bulding thing to last !please talk to the ones
Building almost everything we use now.
Can you do a video on Landfill Mining?
Adding our waste to as nutrients (properly treated) is the way to go, and gets back to the natural cycle which is what it was used before chemical fertilizers proliferated.
On the other hand, using fruit waste to create plastic, while in theory is better than petrol-derived plastics, if it implies removing it from the compost pile, it goes contrary the first project, which is natural fertilization of the soil. It's like using crops for biogas instead of food production.
No, there is enough compost to supply both projects for a long time 🤦♂️
@@DJ1573 as much as peak oil is being publicized, there are studies affirming that we have already surpassed peak fertilizer (or NPK, if you will).
If that's true, and with world population still growing, we're gonna have a hard time producing food for everyone some years down the line, so I wouldn't be so sure.
time to revisit HEMP for the next gen of uninformed newbies a good start would be going back to HENRY FORD !
Farmers were using human waste in my area until recent years. When treated the same as farm slurry it's a great fertilizer. We could stop putting our waste through expensive, multi billion £ water treatment works and send it via pipelines to farmers. So simple.
Hells yea.
Using sludge (human waste fertilizer) is terrible for crops. The nitrogen content is extremely high, so when you use sludge on a field you'll get an excellent yield for one or two years and then burn the soil out. I've literally seen it happen in Virginia.
@@cancermcaids7688 You're not a farmer.
nice but bigger problem is garbage waste. I don't see any great solution for this but maybe electricity becomes a lot cheaper then processing/recycling waste can be much better and less is thrown into a land fill.
I think the best would be to use our own bodies in movement to store energy for out side use from each moving part, clothing everything we move in spaces all everything micro and we use daily nightly and endless supply of energy from each and everything that is moving daily nightly 24/7 all everything moving, shoes, opening doors, paths on, bikes, vehicles, everything you see is capable of creating outside need of electricity if really needed, when you need it and store it also from over creating power. Think big 😮 all inventions are good just portable in and like organized for and solar is can the best it's really free and what each person needs it's lots on micro like computer tech and light house need it was needed but now transport needs it even out appliances are capable of using less energy think micro and less input needed with more out put from micro plants like even shoes or walking around you house opening doors some wind some solar some water some bits of this and that, just the gist but it's coming cause it will come to portable need jointed pultiples in masses if needs to be ratio for need in quantified need in each space from one to many closer in space of need.
They have been using treated poop in Chile for vegetables for many years with extremely good results.
The problem I see with biosolids, is the forevever chemicals that find their way into our waste water systems. I saw a video recently, where a cattle farm had spead biosolids for years, all the while contaminating their farm.
Matt, how about an update on the wastewater treatment upgrade you covered on the poop video you did last year. Has it proven successful?
Good idea for a follow up!
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Oh dear, when people try to pronouce German words. For future reference:
1) Leibnitz isn't "Leebnitz" (long e), it's with "ei" as in English "eye" 👁, so L👁bnitz.
2) Prost has a long o, so not prost like frost, but prost like boast.
3) Jena (the city) isn't Jeena (long e), it's more like "Yayna" with a long a as in May.
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+2 for the #2 jokes
human waste as fertilizer is as old as agriculture
a startup in pune india is making fuel out of plastic you should check it out
Hi m8.
I could - and often do listen to your presentations for hours on end.
Thank you for making your knowledge and research so absorbable Matt.
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Nuf said 😊
It is good to know that scientists are finding ways to make use of waste materials left over from the production process, but we must recycle much more of the finished products if we
are to be certain that there will be enough material resources for everyone to be able to have what they need, but will only be possible if goods are designed to be disassembled and
recycled. To this end I have long advocated for a system I call (B.A.T.E.S) Biannually Adjusted Targets for Environmental Sustainability. I had always hoped this might be some
global policy like the (C.O.P) program, but with the world bunkering down into self-protection mode, that seems unlikely.
If a global consensus is not possible in the short term, concerned citizens might want to take the opportunity to pressurize their own governments into setting their
own targets, of course this might lead to some countries setting standards that favour their own industries, and disadvantaging rivals, all in the name of
(Environmental sustainability), of course, but I believe it would not be long before companies struggling to meet different standards in different countries, would start
to pressure their own governments to agree a common global standard.
But what is B.A.T.E.S.? And how would it work? I suggest B.A.T.E.S. would be a mandate concentrating on the (3R`s) No, not for the grammatically incorrect
(Reading, writing and arithmetic) but for (recycled material, renewable energy and replenishable water) The B.A.T.E.S. mandate would set out in percentage terms,
the quantities of recycled material, renewable energy or water capable of being replenished, in all goods and services, these targets would then be adjusted every
2 years, products not meeting the new standard after 2 years would be banned. The B.A.T.E.S. mandate would be complex, requiring the definition of each product or service, probably by sector, plus it would need to balance what is desirable against what is possible, a newspaper could already be made from 100% recycled material, but it is not practical to recycle a cotton shirt to make a new one, in this case we would concentrate on the energy input and whether the water used to grow and process the cotton could be replenished.
We need to do much more recycling of almost everything, in the richer first world, we do consume a lot of stuff, far too much if we are being honest, but at least we have a
reasonable waste collection system, plus there is some recycling, usually limited to cardboard, tin cans, and glass bottles.
As for the poorer third world countries, they do consume a lot less, but outside the main cities there is little if any waste collection, and most rubbish is simply dumped in the most
convenient place often a stream or river which will end up drifting out to sea, so when aid is asked for by third world countries it should be offered on the understanding that some of it
is used to set up a realistic waste collection system and a recycling system.
B.A.T.E.S. is in part the other side of the recycling equation, whether it is the first world or the third world, there is very little point asking people to recycle, if there is no demand for
the recycled material, to fix this we need a method of mandating that an increasing percentage of recycled materials are used in each new generation of product.
How will this B.A.T.E.S. mandate work? for larger items like fridges, washing machines, cars, or solar panels, at the time of purchase an additional charge would be made for a bond which would be stored electronically and would be redeemable by a recycling company only when the item had past down a (disassembly line) and been broken down to its most basic materials.
Could carbon be used as a platinum replacement in catalytic converters too? I realize there's palladium, and other precious metals in there too, but it would lower their cost, and it would lower their value to thieves.
ONE big problem- bioaccumulation humans consume far to many drugs, hormones like birth control, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and a plethora of things that don’t get completely metabolized by the liver. A artificial liver to filter this would be necessary.
I studied this in college and discovered that Lake Michigan where I’m from, the water is terrible even when you exclude industrial and ag chemicals
Dear Matt, thank you for the interesting video. t is almost perfect. Why almost? Because you said at the beginning that WASTE CAN NOT BE PREVENTED and this is not true. Trust me, I do prevent wast to happen for the last 10 years and prevented with INDUSTRY 5.0 more than 10.000.000 Metric tons of products and material to become waste alerady
I loved your Wooden Building video, I was searching your channel for a CEB (Compressed Earth Block) video and I couldn't find one. Do you have a video, plans for a video, or an opinion on the CEB home construction? I am getting ready to design a new home myself, and I have really been looking at CEB. I originally wanted rammed earth for the beauty of the walls, but I also want the speed and ease that comes with CEB instead....you could say I'm "undecided."
I think using human waste on crops is called "night soil" ... but I bet it's not safe if it's not heavily pre-processed.