Dive summary:

• Student engineers at Colorado State University are developing a prototype of a new toilet technology that is designed to disinfect, dry and burn solid waste, and convert resulting combustion energy into stored electricity.
• CSU engineers also created clean-burning stoves, which are currently being distributed to villages in developing nations.
• CSU researchers will collaborate with RTI International, a nonprofit institute focused on research, development and technical services, Duke University, NASA’s Ames Research Center and the U.S. Naval Research Lab to make a toilet prototype.
  
   

From the article:

Ever wish that toilets could pull double duty?

Well, waterless toilets that convert human waste into burnable fuel and disinfected, nonpotable water could someday soon be available to people in developing countries.

Engineers from Colorado State University’s Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory and partners will develop a prototype of a toilet designed to disinfect, dry and burn solid waste, and convert resulting combustion energy into stored electricity. The same CSU engineers created clean-burning cookstoves bound for villages in developing nations. ...