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"liquid gold" bricks, with a side of fertilizer:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-urine/south-africans-make-bricks-from-human-urine-idUSKCN1N71WR

 
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That is pretty cool. I wonder how plausible it would be for the future though when we can't even get people on board with using pee in the garden. Fecal and urine phobias will undoubtedly be too much for people to construct urine based anything. Cool article though.
 
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