Inventing the toilet, billionaire Bill Gates will save the world $ 233 billion

According to billionaire Bill Gates, reinventing the toilet and toilet is also a lucrative business opportunity.

Billionaire Bill Gates has a strong belief in the importance of toilets. He bets big that reinventing the toilets could save more than 500,000 people and save more than $ 200 billion.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested over US $ 200 million over the past 7 years, to study sanitation and environmental issues. There have been many interesting ideas and designs that help solve the waste problem, transform human waste into clean water and fertilizer.

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Billionaire Bill Gates.

'The technologies you see here are the most important advances in sanitation and hygiene over the last 200 years , ' said billionaire Bill Gates at the Expo reinventing toilets and performances. out in Beijing city.

He added that in human waste there are about 200 trillion viral cells, 20 billion bacteria, 100,000 parasitic worm eggs. And a new method of eliminating all of these harmful agents will save more than 500,000 people and save the world $ 233 billion.

A method proposed by the California Institute of Technology, according to Bill Gates, is 'super interesting' , which is to use an electrochemical reactor to decompose water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen. Hydrogen can be stored in hydrogen energy cells for use as energy.

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An electrochemical reactor can be used to decompose water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen.

Human waste is really a lucrative business opportunity. Unicef ​​senior adviser Guy Hutton said: 'Proper human waste disposal is an attractive investment. With 2.3 billion unmet needs, this is really a potential market and brings many benefits for the whole society. '

Technology companies and startups can take this as a business opportunity, if they come up with a reasonable solution, Bill Gates said. Also at the Restroom Restoration Expo, there are many technology companies participating in the market, such as Sedron Technologies of the US, India's Eram Scientific Solutions, CRRC Corp and China's EcoSan.

Billionaire Bill Gates shared humorously: 'I never thought I would be an expert on this issue. Melinda and I constantly talked about toilets, toilets and feces on the table. '