{"id":124746,"date":"2021-07-09T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientist-invents-toilet-that-turns-poop-into-green-energy"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:23:00","slug":"scientist-invents-toilet-that-turns-poop-into-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientist-invents-toilet-that-turns-poop-into-green-energy","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Invents Toilet That Turns Poop Into Green Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-invents-toilet-that-turns-poop-into-green-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The toilet could turn roughly a pound of solid human waste, the average amount a human poops in a day, into an impressive 50 liters of methane gas, according to Cho. That means it can generate half a kilowatt hour of electricity, enough to drive an electric car for three quarters of a mile.<\/p>\n<p>And because its 2021 \u2014 a day and age in which nothing is safe from the world of cryptocurrencies \u2014 Cho came up with a virtual currency called Ggool, or \u201choney\u201d in Korean. Every use of the toilet scores you 10 Ggool per day, which can be used to buy stuff on the university\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had only ever thought that feces are dirty, but now it is a treasure of great value to me,\u201d a postgraduate student Heo Hui-jin who\u2019s both earned and spent Ggool, told <em>Reuters<\/em>. \u201cI even talk about feces during mealtimes to think about buying any book I want.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toilet could turn roughly a pound of solid human waste, the average amount a human poops in a day, into an impressive 50 liters of methane gas, according to Cho. That means it can generate half a kilowatt hour of electricity, enough to drive an electric car for three quarters of a mile. And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}