
Research scope:
- Develop innovative toilet concept that is waterless, off-grid, affordable and creates useful products out of human waste.
- Built a Phase I research prototype to present at the World Toilet Fair in New Delhi, India in 2014.
- Sol-Char Toilet uses concentrated solar power transmitted through fiberoptic cables to convert human waste to char, a benign, odorless, charcoal-like product that can be used as solid fuel or fertilizer.
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Learn more: Solchar Toilet