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Jedi72 on Nov 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet resear...

Toilets are a great example of how technological progress isn't just endless improvement. Sometimes we hit complete dead ends even on the simplest problems.

pbhjpbhj on Nov 7, 2018 | [–]

There have been lots of toilet innovations "recently".

Toilets that use excrement to generate electricity, for example, like in this situation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41680867.

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