We have a natural handicap to our individual human thought processes: because we have individual bodies and we can draw a conceptual distinction between "self" and "everything else", we are burdened with this illusory notion of "outsideness." But when you throw something away, exactly where is "away"? On a small planet in the middle of a vast and chilly void, there is no such thing as "away."
And so, let's cheer the canny editors over at Discovery.com, who have collated a list of seven ways that poo will power the future. Even our excrement can't be thrown "away" any more. That's valuable biomass, and we should be putting it to good use! From park lights powered by a dog-poop methane reactor, to spaceborne fuel cells, there's more value in what we flush away than we think.
Read more here: 7 Places Poo Will Power the Future via news.discovery.com
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