Hey, the market for dog shit is growing since there's a looming fertilizer shortage due to the Russian invasion. Growth market... add in a scheme for tax breaks through city clean up initiatives, you may just have an opportunity.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/bunny_honey_using_rabbit_manur...
I learn a lot of things on HN. But, this was a surprise, and a genuinely interesting one.
Poop for the win, I guess.
Guano used to be mined for gunpowder, to the point where the US annexed a few islands after the Guano Islands Act of 1856. If bat guano is usable as fertilizer, we could design some basic guano-collecting bat shelters that act like an automatic litterbox for cats.
The bats get a home, and the equivalent of a flush-toilet, while we get bats, less bugs, and plenty of batshit ideas.
> The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) established the Plowshare Program in June 1957 to explore the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The program took its name from the Bible (Isaiah 2:4), "they will beat their swords into plowshares."
https://st.llnl.gov/news/look-back/plowshare-program
Strangely, Wikipedia makes no mention of the source of the name.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220414005731/en/CF-...
I'm going to be a fucking billionaire. I'll finally have a car with doors that open like this!