Canadian teen discovers method to turn waste water into energy

A Vancouver high school student thinks he knows what to do with the one billion litres of waste water that gets flushed down toilets and sent down sink drains every day in the Greater Vancouver Area.
Austin Wang, who's won numerous science awards, came up with a way to genetically modify micro-organisms so that they could clean the waste water and generate electricity at the same time.
"Canadians are extremely wasteful," says the 18-year-old who loves to play basketball and the piano. "On average, we're worse than Americans."
His method could possibly generate up to 600 gigawatts of energy from waste biomass.
"If we get efficiencies high enough, it's theoretically achievable," says Wang.
An average household in the province uses around 900 kilowatt-hours per month, estimates BC Hydro. This is what we have been waiting for. Solves two problems with one solution. Why aren't my kids this smart ?

Watch more about Austin's plan to turn waste water into electricity in the video above.