{"id":134143,"date":"2022-01-17T01:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/south-korean-eco-friendly-toilet-turns-poop-into-green-energy"},"modified":"2022-01-17T01:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:22:31","slug":"south-korean-eco-friendly-toilet-turns-poop-into-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/south-korean-eco-friendly-toilet-turns-poop-into-green-energy","title":{"rendered":"South Korean eco-friendly toilet turns poop into green energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-korean-eco-friendly-toilet-turns-poop-into-green-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most toilet models flush away waste with gallons of water. Instead, the BeeVi toilet \u2013 a portmanteau of the words\u2019 bee\u2019 and \u2018vision\u2019 \u2013 use a vacuum pump to suck shit into an underground <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/algae-based-eos-bioreactor-absorbs-co2-acre-trees\/9186\/\">bioreactor<\/a>, which means it uses less water. The energy-producing toilet system is much smaller than the existing flushable toilets, as it treats human excrement without using water.<\/p>\n<p>The system utilizes a natural biological process to break down human waste into a dehydrated odorless compost-like material. Once these powdered feces are transferred to the Microbial Energy Production system, they can later be converted to methane, which becomes a source of energy for the building, powering a gas stove, hot-water boiler, and solid oxide fuel cell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>If we think out of the box, faeces has precious value to make energy and manure. I have put this value into ecological circulation<\/em>,\u201d the inventor Cho Jae-weon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most toilet models flush away waste with gallons of water. Instead, the BeeVi toilet \u2013 a portmanteau of the words\u2019 bee\u2019 and \u2018vision\u2019 \u2013 use a vacuum pump to suck shit into an underground bioreactor, which means it uses less water. The energy-producing toilet system is much smaller than the existing flushable toilets, as it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134143","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}