RetroFed Forum
Your home away from modern life.
Solar-powered no-water toilets
Post Reply
AuthorMessage
Artisian lemmy.world Artisian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
Quote

41   Original
Imgonnatrythis sh.itjust.works Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-23
#2 · Quote Reply

Great. These in public places without infrastructure, and let's start putting more vacuum based systems in homes and businesses.

7
john_lemmy slrpnk.net john_lemmy@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-21
#3 · Quote Reply

Great. These in public places without infrastructure, and let's start putting more vacuum based systems in homes and businesses.

Vacuum based systems?

3
Imgonnatrythis sh.itjust.works Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-23
#4 · Quote Reply

Vacuum based systems?

Slurrrppp. Think airplane commode.

There are probably better articles on this, but a brief summary :

https://evac.com/article/benefits-of-vacuum-technology-in-water-scarcity-areas/

3
SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
#5 · Quote Reply

Vacuum based systems?

What did you think crevice tools were for?

1
TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-26
#6 · Quote Reply

The problem isn't that there are too many people, or too little water.

The problem is billionaires are wasting all of our resources doing their capitalism.

The planet is 2/3s water, but it doesn't make "economic sense" to desalinate it with renewable power, and pipe it where needed. Maybe if we stopped measuring the value of a thing ONLY in dollars, we'd all have a better time.

3
anomnom sh.itjust.works anomnom@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-11-09
#7 · Quote Reply

The problem isn't that there are too many people, or too little water. The problem is billionaires are wasting all of our resources doing their capitalism. The planet is 2/3s water, but it doesn't make "economic sense" to desalinate it with renewable power, and pipe it where needed. Maybe if we stopped measuring the value of a thing ONLY in dollars, we'd all have a better time.

This one is designed for post disaster use though, but you’re not wrong.

2
Artisian lemmy.world Artisian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#8 · Quote Reply

The problem isn't that there are too many people, or too little water. The problem is billionaires are wasting all of our resources doing their capitalism. The planet is 2/3s water, but it doesn't make "economic sense" to desalinate it with renewable power, and pipe it where needed. Maybe if we stopped measuring the value of a thing ONLY in dollars, we'd all have a better time.

(Gonna also note that desalination has costs and downsides. Energy is only recently free and still has externalities, materials are still scarce and have to be prioritized, and it really isn't that much fun hauling water, cleaning filters, or building pipes. I think in almost all arrangements of how we spend humanities total effort, we wont be piping that much pure water into the middle of the Sahara.)

2
Post Reply
Back to top