Hi Bob.

25-Jan-04 10:21:01, Bob Lawrence wrote to Jasen Betts


 BL>> What's the difference between a composting toilet and a deep hole
 BL>> outside? Is the composting toilet inside?

 JB>> The seat is, the whole ting is above ground, the compost is
 JB>> accessed from outside.

 BL> How do they get the poop from the pan to the bin? And how do they
 BL> prevent the stink coming back up the hole?

gravity. basically the bin us below the seat.
one of those little 12v fans like they use inside PCs.

 BL> Bill Grimsley used to claim that he had an ancestor named WC
 BL> Crapper who invented the flushing toilet.

That'd be John Crapper who invented the "siphonic" toilet cistern.
(chain-operated thing)

Tt wasn't a Crapper who invented the flush loo.

 JB>> it gets the sucker out of the way, helps if you're wanting to
 JB>> look over the top of trees etc too.

 BL> Trees are mostly transparent to radio waves, in the same way that
 BL> clouds are transparent to infrared.
 BL> To me, the obvious place to
 BL> put one of those little dishes is under the roof...

yeah, if you have a tile, (or plastic, or asbestos) roof and no foil
insulation or wire mesh under it.

 -=> Bye <=-

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