My Plan to Save the Poor

This plan begins with the people, for any action to be taken will require the cooperation of everyone in a given area. The first pieces of the puzzle that need to be put into place are the collection of the feces from individuals and then getting it to the methane gas production center. Buckminster Fuller has invented a waterless Packaging Toilet that is key to the proper development of this plan. “The toilet automatically and swiftly seals the excrement in plastic bags.” writes J. Baldwin in Bucky Works. “A collection service picks up the bags for use as compost, feedstock for chemical processes, or as a source of fuel in the form of methane gas.” According to Baldwin the idea never took off because infrastructure and marketing are an integral part of the plan which Fuller was not interested in.
I believe that the main problem was not one of design for it is a quite simple plan but rather one of need. People here in the United States and much of Europe have no need at this point to change their sewage systems. The same is not true for much of the rest of the world. That is where this system should be put into place first. Start with the absolute poorest people in the world. Give them toilets and pay them to use them. As I understand it many of these people earn less than $100.00 per year. Even a dime a day would help. Pay by the pound and by a gas quality rating done by some as yet to be invented devise. A device which I imagine even I could design if given enough information.
Since at the present time many of these people would not even have a place to put toilets were someone to give toilets to them, the plan would be to set up public bathrooms using the Packaging Toilet at convenient locations to the poor in the largest cities in the world. My guess is that certainly shit is much more valuable than recycling paper which is a huge industry. This plan could be set up either by national governments, local governments, or private industry. The money is made when the gas is either sold or used instead of other fuel of higher cost. This is particularly true in much of the third world where extremely high imported fuel costs are crippling whole economies. Also in these economies the difference between what would be considered exceptional payment for a piece of shit as well as the labor costs of getting it to the gas production area and the revenue generated from it would be much greater than in a developed economy.
Setting up these public bathrooms would have residual effects. Much of the current waste that goes untreated in these areas would be used to produce methane. A cleaner environment would mean better health and longer lives for the inhabitants of the area. Also it would become public policy to encourage better eating habits which would be helped along by the fact that people would now have more money with which to buy food which is also cheap in these areas. They could buy more food and higher quality food both of which would be good for business.
Each bathroom would have at least one attendant on duty at all times. They would keep the place clean in order to encourage use, and also make payment for the deposited excrement. Naturally, whatever precautions necessary to insure the safety of the attendant in the handling of the money would be made. Perhaps credits could be made to cards or whatever other feasible and appropriate method of payment could be provided. Perhaps it could be arranged to have the crap go directly to an evaluating area for decisions about weight and gas production quality. Also located in each bathroom would be a collection area for excrement from the outside including animal dung which could be brought in to the extent that it is compatible with human feces during the gas production process.
The fact that the Packaging Toilet is neat, clean, sanitary and odor-free would also open the door for private use of the toilets. In the case of private use it would be more a matter of doing something for one’s country than an economic motive that would drive the use of the toilets, although if one were to bring their feces to the collection center they would also be paid the going rate. In the case of private use, the brown gold would be saved until a trip to the collection center became economically feasible. Or it could be the case that the difference between price paid and commercial value would make it worthwhile to set up the collection service proposed by Buckminster Fuller. Again, the figures between price paid and commercial value are subject to manipulation, hopefully to the benefit of all concerned.
In rural areas much of the methane could be used to provide electricity for the benefit of the immediate area where the gas is produced. In areas where there is already some electrical power the gas could be used both to supply additional power and for use as cooking gas in stoves. One of the beauties of methane is that it can be distributed relatively safely in gas canisters of varying size for wide spread use in a given area. One novel approach to getting this whole system set up would be to have a large city invest in the infrastructure of public toilets and production facilities in addition to buses that run on methane gas. They could use the gas to power the buses and credit people who donate the fuel with free rides. This could also be done by a private bus company.
As of this writing I am not sure of the energy values that will be associated with this plan although that I am certain that even I will be amazed once all is said and done. I offer this plan freely to the world in the hope that you will remember me, St. Gregory U. Art God, the Prince formerly known as Gregory Stuart Gordon, in your prayers.

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But as you have taken it upon yourself to school me on The New Testament. Let’s start at the very beginning. Of the new testament. Now if you were to go to the very beginning of the new testament where would turn, or better yet, who would you turn to. What disciple? I unlike you know the order of the apostles. No, I did not say the order of the books of the Bible. So if, you think that the order of the apostles is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. You are wrong. Dead Wrong. Test me??? Do you detect sarcasm. No. You don’t. “In the begginning…” The first shall be last and the last shall be first. THE ORDER OF THE APOSTLES.

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Your offer to attend to my buttocks is appreciated but I think I’d need to be wooed first. Perhaps a candle-lit meal in a restaurant would be a better idea. 😉

Not only would it be the second time that I’ve threatened to kill you George W. Bush It behooves me to do so. Consider it done. The worst you can or any court can do as long as I fly my plane from New York State is give me life. More abundantly. Thank you, sweet Jesus for saving my soul.