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Liquid gold: Prototype harvests valuable resource from urine (news.stanford.edu)
submitted 8 months ago by Pro@mander.xyz to c/science@lemmy.world
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[–] shplane@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The valuable resource is fertilizer.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Urea and nitrate salts

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yep, urine is about 10% nitrogen which is why it's so good for plants (the N in NPK fertilizers).

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Waterworld, here we go. 😶

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

I pee in my garden all the time

[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And now they(1) will tell us we don't really our own urine, it was just leased to use and we now need to pay premium monthly sub to take a leak?

1: some capitalists/corps owning IP on the process.