When I saw the Burj Khalifa in real life I was truly stunned. Indeed, the tallest skyscraper in the world defies belief. Today I learned something that also defies belief: all the poop produced there has to be removed by trucks.
Look, if you’re getting pelted in the face with bad-smelling, bad-tasting “organic material,” maybe it’s time to pack up and take it to the studio, yeah? Poor Tucker Barnes learned that the hard way in Ocean City, MD, where he got covered head-to-toe in sea foam probably caused by raw sewage backup from Hurricane Irene.
An 11,000-litre surge of raw sewage sucked a Missouri construction worker nearly 2km through a 27-inch wide sewer pipe before he was finally rescued at the 15th hole of a golf course yesterday. He’s recovering in hospital.
In what sounds like the most over-engineered toilet tech ever, Stanford engineers are using rocket science to clean up sewage.
You might think that fresh air would be essential for a sewage treatment plant, but some bacteria cannot stand the stuff. These bugs could clean waste water so efficiently that the process could generate power rather than consume it.
The quest for maximum recycling of materials have reached a new high in the current economic crisis–or perhaps a new low: The sewage plant in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan, is mining gold from sludge.
