Now House
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Now House:
"Xining had given them their best duplicating equipment. They had silk-screening equipment, printing equipment, and typewriters, and were able to broadcastingly communicate to society from their headquarters and received their feedback from a thousand visitors a day.
"In the kitchen-bathing dome Herman Miller had provided most compact, economic but adequate, shelving on which to mount their kitchen equipment. They had a toilet which converted human waste into high-grade fertilizer. The heat necessary for this odorless process was provided alternately by electricity from the windmill hookup or by heat from the solar panel water-heating device. The toilet system produced fertilizer as a rich, dry, manured, loam-like substance which needed to be taken out of the system only once a year....
"The domes were equipped with a remote control telephone. Arrayed between two of the three domes under a translucent canopy were banks of tomatoes and other food vegetation in hydroponic tanks, with noticeable growth accomplished during only the short two-week period of the installation."
