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

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

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

 Bill Grimsley used to claim that he had an ancestor named WC Crapper
who invented the flushing toilet. Water and the S bend is the whole
secret...and if you're going to flush, why not use the standard
bacteria that turn it into water rather than compost?

  BL> It always amuses me when they mount a satellite dish on the
BL> roof, as if an extra six-metres makes any diference in 40,000
BL> km.

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

 Trees are mostly transparent to radio waves, in the same way that
clouds are transparent to infrared. To me, the obvious place to put
one of those little dishes is under the roof... but I think Yuppies
like the look of them. Maybe I could sell dummy dishes (for dummmy
users).

Regards,
Bob

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