additional commentary by State Rep. Timothy Horrigan; May 13,
2012
On my main Incinolet video page I promised "no poops," and I
was good to my word. However, I found this video which
does show some turds being incinerated, and which gives a good
explanation of how the device works. Don't worry: the
video is relatively tasteful and it is odor free. I
learned of the existence of incinerating toilets while reading
about a 2009 House Petition filed by Duane Besso of
Londonderry, New Hampshire. He built a small house a
few years back on a property which was mostly wetlands and
lacked the room for a septic system. The town refused to
let him live there— even after he suggested installing an
Incinolet. He eventually asked the legislature to order
the town to pay him a large sum of money, to order the town to
grant him each and every permit which he had been denied, and to
begin proceedings to remove two District Court judges from
office. This was in 2008-2009, when the Democrats were in
charge, and none of his demands were met.
The video was made by a famous conceptual artist, Tom
Sachs. The setting is a little odd: the narrator is an
attractive young woman with a charming foreign accent (possibly
Russian). She is (supposedly) living in a cabin where the
Incinolet is wedged between a sleeping alcove and a trash
container which seems to have been salvaged from a Hardee's
burger shack. She begins the video by unlocking her
toilet (which for reasons unexplained has a padlock on it)— and
she ends it by discarding the ashes from the Incinolet in the
trash bin. Putting ashes in the trash, even when you think
they have cooled to room temperature, is very dangerous.
I never heard of Tom Sachs until I saw his Incinolet video, but
he has done some major projects, including "The Mars Project,"
which re-enacted a flight to Mars, culminating in a major
installation at New York City's Park Avenue Armory in May 2012.
As far as I know, this is not Mr. Besso's house in the video. It
was probably made at Mr.
Sach's studio.
See Also:
Here is a video about the place where this video was (presumably) made. Some cat turds and a toilet (not the same one as in the previous video) make a cameo appearance about 16 minutes in. All of Mr. Sachs's advice applies to being a New Hampshire state rep, even if my assigned committee frequently ignores it:
See Also:
Robert Stewart's WombatNation.com blog entries