[at-l] Austin Priviy

[Steve Landis]

You mean...everything is connected to everything else?
In the '80's I built many prototypes of a "dry closet" for the late Dr.
Henry Yeagley who was a neighbor and a friend.  Many were built in his
basement shop.  He always had the most current model installed in his
downstairs bathroom for testing.  I don't recall needing to regularly 
add additional organic material.
http://books.google.com/patents/about?id=hwc9AAAAEBAJ
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/04/us/henry-l-yeagley-97-theorist-on-bird-flight.html

Steve

Jim Bullard wrote:
> And if it became widespread it would add to the shortage of sawdust 
> that has hit the pellet stove fuel industry. With the recession in 
> building there is a shortage of sawdust available for conversion into
>  wood pellets which has caused increased competition for the
> available supply and a 40+% increase in the price of pellet fuel.
> 
> Jim Bullard http://jims-ramblings.blogspot.com/ 
> http://members.photoportfolios.net/Jim_Bullard
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Jan Lite <liteshoe at gmail.com 
> <mailto:liteshoe at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> Green toilet wins city approval
> 
> 
> Composting commode is first to gain official stamp.
> 
> By Asher Price <mailto:asherprice at statesman.com> AMERICAN-STATESMAN 
> STAFF Thursday, June 18, 2009
> 
> It took more than four years of negotiations and construction, but 
> this month an Austin Water Utility inspector gave final clearance to
>  a glorified outhouse that is on the vanguard of down-and-dirty 
> environmentalism.
> 
> Known as a composting toilet, the East Austin commode relies on the 
> alchemy wrought by bacteria to transform human waste into a rich 
> trove of soil. Specialists in so-called humanure have hailed the 
> approval of the toilet as a watershed moment for common-sense 
> environmentalism.
> 
> Users flush not with water but with a scoop of sawdust from a nearby
>  bucket, saving the drinking-water-quality water used by conventional
>  toilets, not to mention the energy and money required to pump and 
> clean the wastewater.
> 
> "It's the ecologically sound thing to do," said David Bailey, 32, an
>  itinerant carpenter and puppeteer who spearheaded the project. 
> "Rather than using purified drinking water for a waste stream, we're
>  using naturally occurring, ambient bacteria to create soil, one of 
> Earth's least renewable resources. You have more water to drink and 
> bathe in, and you end up with topsoil that's every gardener's dream."
> 
> 
> 
> The technology, simple as it is, is unlikely to become widespread. 
> City code bars any property within 100 feet of a sewer line from 
> having a composting toilet. There's also the "ick" factor. And 
> despite issuing its first such permit, the city does not sound 
> especially keen on composting commodes...
> 
> more at:
> 
> http://www.statesman.com/green/content/news/stories/local/2009/06/18/0618humanure.html
> 
> 
> 
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