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How much cum?
I need a visual
Of what, a metric shit-ton?
🤣
A metric half shit-ton.
Where does that all go?!?
Double that for me.
People who say we need petro chemicals for modern agriculture need to understand this
The problem is that human feces carries a lot of human pathogens.
That's why you compost it before use. Its own heat kills those pathogens with time.
I think North Korea does this with less than optimal results.
In don't think North Korea does anything optimally lol
If everyone would be diligent to compost it correctly, it would work. You couldn't ensure that on a large scale.
If it was State run, of course you could.
You're probably right. I don't think the state would take it on, though. One mistake, and you have deadly consequences and people suing for justice.
You realize every other time it rains in NYC, they dump raw sewage into the ocean and there's an uptick in people who get sick (swimmers) as a result?
Almost every major city in the US has this problem.
So I must disagree. I don't think it would be worse than our current situation.
Also, we currently fertilize food crops with cow manure, which also carries pathogens. These pathogens could be also eliminated by composting too, but I don't think anyone does this. This is usually the cause of e-coli and salmonia outbreaks in the US.
What I'm proposing is safer than the status quo
Perhaps I'm just not understanding you, but how does composting treated sewage fix the problem of dumping raw sewage into the water before it ever reaches the treatment plant?
The reason for the dumping of raw sewage is because these cities have older infrastructure which combines wastewater and storm water collection into one system. Heavy rains can increase the flow rate in such systems by as much as ten times their usual rate, which is far too much for treatment plants to handle without massively oversizing them and it also could make them lose the microbiology that treats the wastewater for them. Diverting this sewage directly into the receiving waters actually prevents even worse public health problems from occurring.
Another problem with what you are proposing is that, while composting can be good enough to get rid of pathogens, it's not good enough to remove things like pharmaceuticals and heavy metals. Incineration would be a more effective solution, but it requires even higher upfront costs.
If we don't put human waste into water, we don't have this problem. Is that not clear?
Of course it is, but what's your method to achieving that goal and what does composting human waste have to do with it?
I don't understand why this isnt clear to you. If you compost it, it solves that problem.
My city already collects my kitchen scraps waste for compost. This would just be another waste collection system that would virtually eliminate clean water issues caused by human feces
The composting part is relatively easy, it's the collection system that I'm having the problem with. I mean, the way you're describing it now almost makes it sound like you want people to poop directly into buckets and hand it off to their neighborhood compost collection service. If all you're proposing is that Congress gives more money to city governments to upgrade their outdated systems more quickly, then that's perfectly fine with me, it just comes across to me more like wishful thinking than an actual plan.
Safer, maybe. But it's crappy work.
I'll leave...
That is, of course, the only way to coordinate anything.
So, what you're saying, is that they don't understand shit.
One could wonder why modern agriculture systems don't use free human waste
Because we don't care about the negative externalities of using fossil fuels.
Corporations don't care about harming people
someone, at some point, took the biggest dump in history. and didn't even know it
They suspected. They couldn't confirm it.
``Doesn't seem fair if you count diarrhea. All that water weight.
If so, it's probably someone with cholera
It was Bono's dad
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Pffffft...
Those are rookie numbers
I can do that in a year when my IBS is flaring up
Fisting with IBS, hey?
I thought cooking bacon naked was playing dangerous games.
That escalated fist.
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You load 3.5 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in shit
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
My toilet over-flows on the company floor
Rookie numbers
OP is full of shit.
How many miles of feces? Are we talking to the scale of as long as the Panama canal, the length of New York, around the equator, or to the moon (and back)?
The average density of human feces is approximately 1.06 grams per milliliter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_feces
Normal stool (Type 4) typically has a diameter of about 1 to 2 cm http://d2xk4h2me8pjt2.cloudfront.net/webjc/attachments/73/57bbee4-bristol-stool-chart.pdf
Radius = 0.75 cm
Density = 1.06 g/cm³
Mass = 3,500,000 g
Volume = 3,500,000 / 1.06 = ~3,301,887 cm³
Cross-sectional area = π × 0.75² = ~1.767 cm²
Length = 3,301,887 / 1.767 = ~1,868,000 cm = 18,680 m = 18.7 km
So 18.7km or 11.6 miles
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That would depend on the tightness of the anus
Are we talking about someone who squeezes out pencils, or a log-dropper?
Irrelevant. We roll them into ISO standard poo diameter after excretion
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