If you’re a long time Mac fan like I am, you probably remember a time in the 90’s when you would have paid anything to watch then Microsoft CEO eat shit and die.
Of course, since leaving Microsoft, Bill Gates has become quite the humanitarian… one who is especially concerned with the problem of getting clean drinking water to the rest of the world. So these days, I have no interest in seeing him eat shit and die.
But drink shit and live? Sign me up!
In a new video on his official YouTube channel, Bill Gates tried out the Omniprocessor, an ingenious machine designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy which can turn human waste into water and electricity.
And Gates, sport that he was? He actually drank water that came out of the machine. Water that came from poop. And when all was said and done, he was impressed. “It’s water,” he says in the video, with a noticeable sound of relief.
Laughing aside, this is great work that could have huge repercussions in the developing world. Or as Gates himself notes, “In places without good waste treatment plants, it could be a real game-changer.” Maybe even more so than an iPhone.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
9 responses to “Hey Apple fans! Watch Bill Gates drink a glass of poop water!”
Clear water is for Bill Gates, the rest is for win users.
“…this is great work that could have huge repercussions…”
translates to
“…this is great work that could have huge negative consequences…”
I don’t think this is what you meant :)
Technically he didn’t drink it, he sipped it.
Wow, this is pretty crass journalism.
Actually he didn’t… He drank “heat generated sweat” produced by burning shit, which is not drinking poop water….
Ugh!! Just when you thought things would be a little more professional in 2015, we get this crap. The only shit you’ll find here comes from the author. Keep pitching to the lowest common denominator, cretin. I’m one step away from deleting this site from my newsfeed.
“If you’re a long time Mac fan like I am, you probably remember a time in the 90’s when you would have paid anything to watch then Microsoft CEO eat shit and die.”
I don’t know why I cried laughing, when I say this post. LOL.
His lip barely touched that water, lol.
WTF is wrong with you people? I mean REALLY! WTF is wrong with you people?