The idea of the Bio-can is great and could be used globally to help reduce the size of our landfills. Even the idea of the industrial garbage can be a good one because from my experience industries use much more trash per day than I ever have. But I feel as if the microbiology research might cost too much for a start-up company to be able to afford to keep running till a mix of bacteria that do the job to complete satisfaction. A couple of questions that I do have for this company is where are the excess gasses supposed to be released, how about the buildup of the bad exhaust gasses from bacteria. The smells from some of these gasses could be more atrocious than the trash itself. Is it possible with an idea this great that it could be introduced on a large scale to landfills and dumpsites? If the exhaust gasses are safe enough to allow breakdown inside your house they should be safe enough to release out of nature. They will be more reused that way.
Even engineering fuel cells big enough for industrial use would be an engineering feat. It must be efficient, and reliable so it does not have to be replaced every other week. But even trying to get them to work in the home use situation is a challenge. It has to be a simple user interface so even a kid could operate it if need be. Can you still use the trash can while it is during a breakdown process? Or is it like a washing machine where you can insert something halfway through and there will not be any real problems.
I cannot find any problems with the presentation or website other than there is not a description of how it stores and/or transfers power to other devices. It would be a good idea for emergency power supply if it's possible to store some power from future uses. But they still leaves the idea of what happens to the output of power once the battery on the trash can is full? Is there a way for the power to go back into the house to help cut the power bill down? I think with some research, good engineering and a legal team to help defend the new exhaust leaking, power making trashcan from being considered too dangerous for consumer use that this could be an actual product one day!
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