Hello all, Does anyone have any more information on the grant below? A friend just forwarded the write-up to me, but I couldn't find anything on Stanford's site about their progress.
I did manage to find a 1974 report claiming "A simple and effective system for thermally reducing and inerting human waste products (feces and urine) has been successfully demonstrated." which further reinforces the trend in gasification of knowledge from two decades ago being rediscovered as fuel prices creep back up. Not sure if this message should go on the cookstove or the biochar list...gasifiers straddle both topics! Date: June 2011 Purpose: to design, build, and test a pyrolyzer capable of processing 100 kg per hour of human solid waste into biochar Amount: $397,100 Term: 1 year and 4 months Topic: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/home.aspx> Region Served: Africa<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/regions/Pages/default.aspx#/?action=region&id=africa> , Global <http://www.gatesfoundation.org/regions/Pages/default.aspx> Program: Global Development<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-development/Pages/overview.aspx> Grantee Location: Stanford, California Grantee Web site: http://www.stanford.edu http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Grants-2011/Pages/Stanford-University-OPP1038375.aspx Marc Paré B.S. Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology | Université de Technologie de Compiègne my cv, etc. | http://notwandering.com
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