{"id":85,"date":"2005-08-05T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunaldua.com\/index.php\/archives\/76"},"modified":"2005-08-05T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T20:11:10","slug":"no-need-for-the-drains-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/no-need-for-the-drains-now\/","title":{"rendered":"No need for the drains now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI remember I was at this exhibition once with a friend where a company was proudly displaying their &#8220;state-of-the-art&#8221; water purification system. We got into a discussion regarding the features and capabilities of the unit with the company representative and during the course of this discussion, the guy went on to claim, perhaps going a tad over the top as he was to later realize at his peril, that you could connect &#8220;sewage water&#8221; to it&#8217;s inlet and it would still give you pure water. &#8220;No need to flush our stuff away then, eh?&#8221; was what my friend came up with almost instantly. Needless to say, that was the end of the discussion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNASA has come up with something similar &#8211; well almost. A technology that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.08\/urine.html?tw=wn_story_top5\">recycle your urine<\/a> and make it &#8220;safe for drinking&#8221;. Would save NASA millions in costs and\/ or free up the weight to be used for more important stuff like, well, astronauts!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milligazette.com\/Archives\/01082002\/01082002077.htm\">some people<\/a> didn&#8217;t need recycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nRecyclable urine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}