In South Korea, toilets pay for using them (7 photos)

At the South Korean Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), a professor installed a toilet that sends all feces to useful production - it makes biogas.





And since biogas is beneficial, it is logical to pay a reward to the one who provided the “consumables”. That is, paying students for going to his toilet on a grand scale!



Girls choose what they can buy to pay for pooping

A person produces about 0.5 kilograms of excrement per day, which, for a minute, is 50 liters of methane! Of course, this is not very much in total capacity. About a kilometer of travel by car or 500W/hour.





Methane is produced from feces using microbes

But nevertheless, this is real energy! And if you collect it en masse, you can provide the entire university with light.

How to get paid for pooping

No need to climb into installation. The entire system is built into a BeeVi toilet with a powerful vacuum pump. Which will send the feces, as if by pneumatic mail, to the storage tank. This also saves flushing water!

Then, in the tank, the feces, with the help of microbes, begin to release methane. And this methane is already converted into heat or electricity convenient for everyone.



A normal futuristic Korean toilet, not even a vibration massage. ugh!

Logical, smart, even brilliant!

Each student who goes to this toilet receives 10 Ggool. This is an intra-university currency that is translated from Korean as “honey”. In my opinion, they shouldn’t have chosen such a name (the associations with the saying about a spoonful of shit in a barrel of honey are too close), but who will understand the mysterious Korean soul?

This is apparently related to the fact that the toilet itself is called a bee in English - BeeVi. And the currency in Korean... Well, this is not a marketing professor, it turned out nonsense.



Without paper, but with a bidet. I don’t know, I somehow disdain public bidets

There are kiosks on campus that sell goods for these same Ggool. You can buy yourself instant noodles, grab coffee from the cafeteria, even save up for books if you poop diligently and don’t skip days.

So students even try to “bring it home” rather than go to the toilet in other places or at home. It’s good motivation if the energy you receive can really be used for good.



And pmonite, I wrote that in South Korea there is an entire park dedicated to toilets and pooping! People are bothered

The system is still experimental, but, in my opinion, very promising. In the future, perhaps, it will be in Korea that they will begin to build high-rise buildings that provide utility lighting or heating through a common reservoir of feces.

We just need to retrain people to throw everything down the toilet - towels, rotten pilaf, spoiled dough. In South Korea, the problem of clogged toilets is almost worse than in our high-rise buildings.



And this is also South Korea, a photo cafe with poop and toilets. People are simplistic about the topic, there’s nothing to say

Here the Koreans and I are almost 100% in agreement - even if the people have a stake on their head!

How many years do you think are left before humanity will actually be able to introduce such household recycling?