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Re:A waterless toilet that turns poo into power by collyw on Monday February 08, 2016 @02:57PM (#11060480)
Really? I have found that things seem to a lot less disposable in third world countries. Saying that it does seem to have parts which aren't going to be easy to replace.
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Re:A waterless toilet that turns poo into power by TeMPOraL on Monday February 08, 2016 @03:38PM (#11060729)
> Saying that it does seem to have parts which aren't going to be easy to replace.

Which makes it inherently disposable - if one of those parts breaks, they won't be able to fix it locally.

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Re:A waterless toilet that turns poo into power by collyw on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @10:55AM (#11066085)
People in these places can be quite ingenious with physical hacks.
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Re:A waterless toilet that turns poo into power by TeMPOraL on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @09:49AM (#11073057)
They can, though I'm having trouble imagining they'll be ingenious enough to fix things that require very precise engineering or nanofilters.
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