Bill Gates lifts lid on solar-powered toilet with $6.5m funding

BusinessGreen: People living in the developing world could soon be flushing solar-powered toilets capable of creating hydrogen and electricity from that most renewable of sources -- poo. Microsoft founder and philanthropist, Bill Gates, yesterday awarded a total of $240,000 (£153,000) in prize money to universities which produced the most impressive concepts for his "Reinventing the Toilet" challenge. He also handed out a further $3.4m in grants to help develop a series of other clean tech toilet projects,...

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