
This is what Biotechnology is if you ask me.
Human Feces Powers Rwandan Prisons
Imagine eating food that was cooked using natural gas generated from your own human waste. Thousands of prisoners in Rwanda don't have to imagine it -- they live it.
Prisoners' feces is converted into combustible "biogas," or methane gas that can be used for cooking. It has reduced by 60 percent the annual wood-fuel costs which would otherwise reach near $1 million...
Rwanda's biogas facilities are among the most ambitious in the world, given their size and scope. They range up to 1,000 cubic meters in something resembling a beehive shape...
"Our people are very adaptive," he said. "They see it working; they want to use it."....
Quoted from Wired News [link]

