Why don’t we all use composting toilets to generate methane gas to fuel our homes?
BD asked:
Since methane gas is the natural byproduct of human waste and the decomposition of organic matter why don’t we use our toilets, garbage disposals and compost piles to cook with and heat our water and homes?
Why doesn’t all of our organic waste, human, food and yard, get deposited in a central bin in our homes, where it can decompose, while the combustible methane gas can be contained in a sealed chamber and channelled to use for heating, hot water, cooking, drying and refrigeration? I would guess that a properly maintained compost bin could generate fuel from an abundance of leaves, grass clippings, even newspaper with the proper design.
Since methane gas is the natural byproduct of human waste and the decomposition of organic matter why don’t we use our toilets, garbage disposals and compost piles to cook with and heat our water and homes?
Why doesn’t all of our organic waste, human, food and yard, get deposited in a central bin in our homes, where it can decompose, while the combustible methane gas can be contained in a sealed chamber and channelled to use for heating, hot water, cooking, drying and refrigeration? I would guess that a properly maintained compost bin could generate fuel from an abundance of leaves, grass clippings, even newspaper with the proper design.
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I wouldn’t want a composting toilet in my house, as the smell wouldn’t be all that great. If it was in the house, it could aid the spread of disease too.
It would have to be cleaned out on a basis of sorts, would you be willing to do that for everyone in the world?
Ok, so it could be collected into large vats and be done on a large scale, but you probably wouldn’t get a large enough amount of the methane for it to be worth it.
Why don’t we put cows in a giant greenhouse and collect all of their methane?
If you think, you would probably release about 1dm^3 of methane a day? (only a stab in the dark) so that would be a very small amount of methane altogether. Would probably add up to about 1 minute of a computer being turned on.
(I’m making up the figures, but you can see where i’m coming from)