Engineer builds low-cost device to purify human waste, make compost and generate electricity
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 06:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) -- Caitlyn Shea Butler, a civil engineering professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has designed and is now field-testing a new “green latrine” that purifies human waste, turning it into compost for farming and generating electricity.Her multipurpose invention is called a “Microbial Fuel Cell Latrine.”