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RE: Compost Toilet Build at The Squat Cabin and a New Toy!
Making progress!! Do you know anything about biodigester tech? I've got an idea to use humanure production to heat water for a shower whilst simultaneously making fertilizer and methane for cooking.
Dear lord im missing many replies!! I omly had the idea after seeing huge steemin dung heaps in gemany that it would be so easy to heat water inside it 😊
Imagine a digester tank with an overflow attached high to another tank. Inside the digester you have a double coil of 2" copper tube that carries water in and out to be heated. No real changes are needed to the overall design of the biodigester except that tube.
Since a healthy BDG will run about 120°-140° f there's no need to heat the water further for a terribly comfortable shower. In fact you'll likely want to cool the water a bit with a mixer.
Additionally gas is put off that can be collected and pressurized with gravity. Most stoves can easily be altered by just drilling out the ports a little to accommodate the methane. Now you have hot water for bathing, cleaning, etc, gas for cooking, and fertilizer for growing things, and no excess sewage to deal with.
Genius or no?
its all about that copper coil mate! And a loada shit! im looking forward to when cash is no longer a thing and so everyone has more time to do things like this, instead of what ive been doing, out working hahaha :) nothing lasts forever :)
You got a great design idea there man!
Could even be a built in compost toilet somehow also! hahahahah dark humor i guess, but i know you love it!
Lol dark humor for dark water. I reckon if your toilet had any kind of tank it could work. I'd probably test the temperature before I invested time and money into a coil and pump though.
im happy just to have a very good compost ! And a decent place to take a dump this winter hahahhaha
You should have plenty of sawdust after all your sawing 😂😂😂
OOOOOHHHH yeh ! I was chuckling to myself that its a good enough reason alone to use an electric chainsaw whilst I was scooping it up! Theres a huge bag of it ready to go now :P
I poop so much I'd likely need a full on wood chipper to use a composting toilet properly 😂😂😂