Saturday, November 10, 2012

Electricity generated from 'poop'

India is awakening to a new era of innovative toilets. They are swanky, state of the art, automatic, converts waste products to ecologically friendly charcoal, minerals, clean water and electricity through sewage treatment and water recycling methods using nanotechnology.
These are India’s first e-toilets: electronic portable toilets for public use. They take-up less than 40 sq ft of space, built with stainless steel to withstand corrosion and fitted with automatic fans, lights, locks and flush that switch on and off after the user enters and exists. Water is controlled with flushes using just 1.5 litres, as opposed to the three litres in regular toilets. Very soon, they will also have GPRS so that the e-toilets can be tracked down through mobile phone maps.





The e-toilets are the brain wave of Eram Scientific Solutions Ltd., in Thiruvananthapuram. Launched in Kerala with great success, the next cities targeted for installation are Delhi, Noida, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The next-generation e-toilets will be priced at Rs 3.5 to 8.5 lakh each.

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