The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health Zeldovich Lina
Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource--if we make better use of it.The average person…
Specifikacia The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health Zeldovich Lina
Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource--if we make better use of it.The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crapBecause of the diseases it spreads, we have learned to distance ourselves from our waste, but the long line of engineering marvels we've created to do so--from Roman sewage systems and medieval latrines to the immense, computerized treatment plants we use today--has also done considerable damage to the earth's ecology. Now scientists tell us: we've been wasting our waste. When recycled correctly, this resource, cheap and widely available, can be converted into a sustainable energy source, act as an organic fertilizer, provide effective medicinal therapy