HOW TO LIVE MORE EFFICIENTLY

I recently read an article about how they are using human waste – yeas, human shit and everything else – that is taken from waste processing plants and using it to cook food. Of course, the waste goes through a somewhat lengthy process to make it safe and it comes out as fuel balls which can be burned.

Before that, I watched a documentary on the cow dung -methane wells of India. They dig empty wells. Cover the top with concrete covers that have strategic holes in them: one for adding cow dung which they have mixed with water and possibly some chemicals – I needed to go to the toilet at that point. This mixture is eaten up by anaerobic bacteria and produces methane which is captures by the other hole and piped into homes where it is used to cook and heat.

Then there are the numerous wave harvesting technologies, solar energy harvesters, and geothermal technologies being developed successfully all over the world.

Watching all this, it occurred to me that possibly one reason why we are not using our energy as efficiently is because we are hindered by so many possibly illogical and unreasonable sensitivities.

Imagine this.

We harness cow dung methane, human waste fuel balls, recycled cooking oil biodiesel and other burnable material. Then we burn them all in one central furnace which forms the center of a town’s heat requirement: a massive oven, if you will. Perhaps no big as in size but big as in widespread.

Now, from this central heating core, we build ovens that access the heat directly. These interconnected ovens will have their own chambers but perhaps they pipe the heat from that core. These ovens will be our crematoriums, bread ovens, meat roasters, and other things that require direct heat. We will have an inbuilt system which inhibit backwash heat so that the individual ovens will not contaminate the other ovens.

Then we have a section of the core which heats a boiler. The steam from this boiler will be used to cook our foods that require boiling: chicken (for chicken rice etc), our kuehs, and other item. We cool the steam a little and then we can use it to make saunas and heat hour homes, if we live in cold climates.

On top of that, the central boiler can also power a small steam driven power station to produce electricity.

Our recycling can go even further but we need to rein ourselves in when we come to the point when we start thinking that the situation in the movie Soylent Green was desirable.

Incidentally, would anyone like some soylent green? The year in that movie was 2022. That’s only four years away.