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Bill Gates drank a glass of water made from poop
Since before retiring from Microsoft, Bill Gates has been involved in somewhat crazy philanthropic missions, but always with goals beyond noble. He's already launched a contest to reinvent the toilet, pledged US$ 100,000 to the creator of the next generation of condoms, funded contraceptive chips for women and persuaded 40 billionaire pals to donate good money to charities. Now, he drank water extracted from human poop. Calm down, the guy didn't unwind! It's just the result of a contraption that fascinated the co-founder of Microsoft.
That little glass of water in the picture, which you'd think twice about drinking, came out of the Omniprocessor, a gigantic machine that processes human feces. In addition to generating drinking water, it also produces energy and ash. Maximum efficiency!
The objective of the technology, as explained by Victor Caputo on the Exame website, is to improve sanitary conditions in poor countries, where the lack of sanitation is a serious problem that exposes millions of people to diseases and compromises the water in rivers and streams.
Gates visited an Omniprocessor unit in November and made the video below where he explains the contraption and, in the end, turns into a glass of fresh water:
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