Recycling Adult Diapers?

[Boston_Daddy]

Can older incontinent people be a source of new energy? Absolutely, says Japanese automation firm Super Faiths. In a society where elder care is a growth industry, the company has developed a series of recycling machines that turn used diapers--a bulk of them the adult variety--into fuel for biomass boilers and stoves.

this is just a teaser go check out the whole article plus a youtube video at

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20004020-1.html

[LuvsGurl]

Article from May 3 2010, has been posted on here a few times before.

Thanks.

[TDL]

And I was the first one to post it!

[cruxshadow]

That opening sentence sounds like its being proposed that Japan incinerate their elderly as a source of fuel. How could that get past an editor?

"Well, its a cold winter,....and Grandpa's not really doing anything useful....open the furnace, tell him there's medicine inside."

[gbw_dl]

thats cool, im all for USEFUL recycling.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

Just on the face of it it sounds like one of those cociamamie ideas the originators of which type my uncle used to call "Professor Hot-ass"

We've been futzing around with wind, solar and gasohol for 35-40 years and they still can't support themselves. They take more energy make, build or implement than they make and it looks like it'll be that way for decades to come. Fusion has been "just around the corner" 58 years and 10 corners ago