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Bill Gates Drinks Sewage: Introducing the Omni Processor

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On January 22, 2015, Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, came on the set of The Tonight Show with all-around funnyman Jimmy Fallon, with a simple proposition for Fallon: let’s each drink a glass of water.
Simple right?
Oh… here’s the catch: one of the glasses contained bottled water, while the other was very recently fresh sewage, filtered using Gates’ latest philanthropic effort, the Omni Processor.
Let’s watch the fun results as they played out on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon:

Via:The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 1

 Omni Processor Water Purifier

In retrospect, it seems incredibly obvious that the solution to the question, “how do we get potable water to all of Africa?” ended up being this process which involves no advanced technology, just high school level chemistry. On some level it’s very simple, hearkening back to basic principles that have been understood for centuries.
How much of a solution are we talking about? Well according to the Omni Processor’s website this machine can process a moving van’s worth of sewage each day and turn it into 10,800 liters of water a day. If you use the calculations from the Institute of Medicine, that’s enough drinking water to keep 3700 people healthy, per day!
Human beings need about 2.6 liters (11 cups) of water per day to stay healthy.
The energy from the generators seems to be a bonus! (It could produce enough energy for 50 small households per year.)
Let’s learn a bit more about the science behind the Omni Processor from Thegatesnotes on YouTube…

Via: thegatesnotes 2

A New Generation of Water Purification Technology

  1. When you heat something up to dry it, pure water is separated in the form of steam and can be used to drive a generator creating electricity. Remember the invention of the steam engine in the 1800s

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