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Post by Quickstride on Apr 15, 2005 1:21:07 GMT -5
I was watching the miniseries with the boyfriend the other day and he brought up something interesting: how do Dinotopians dispose of human waste? I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but my understanding is that human waste doesn't contain many nutrients and is in fact harmful to the soil. So what becomes of it in Dinotopia? I suppose a healthy, "all natural" Dinotopian diet would cleanse waste products of the more harmful chemicals "outside" humans process, but I don't know if this completely takes care of the problem or if it is a normal trait of human excrement. So, how do they deal with this stuff without significantly polluting the environment?
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Post by aric on Apr 15, 2005 23:46:00 GMT -5
I was watching the miniseries with the boyfriend the other day and he brought up something interesting: how do Dinotopians dispose of human waste? I'm hardly an expert on the subject, but my understanding is that human waste doesn't contain many nutrients and is in fact harmful to the soil. So what becomes of it in Dinotopia? I suppose a healthy, "all natural" Dinotopian diet would cleanse waste products of the more harmful chemicals "outside" humans process, but I don't know if this completely takes care of the problem or if it is a normal trait of human excrement. So, how do they deal with this stuff without significantly polluting the environment? Human fertilizer - called "nightsoil" in the agribusiness - is fairly good for growing things. There are reclamation plants in use around the country that process human sewage using bacteria and the like to break down chemicals and to kill the nasty bacteria. Now, I don't know what Dinotopians could to to treat human sewage and make it useable. Human fertilizer has been used to centuries by Far East Asian countries like China, Korea, and Japan to fertilize rice paddies. I don't know if or how they treated it, since the bacteria and other pathogens that can develop in human waste is particularly harmful to humans. - Aric
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