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Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
« on: August 07, 2010, 07:47:48 AM »
The "humanure" crowd strikes again . . .

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Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched

A car that runs on methane gas produced by human waste has been launched and its makers claim drivers cannot tell the difference.

By Laura Roberts
Published: 7:30AM BST 06 Aug 2010



The Bio-Bug has been converted by a team of British engineers to be powered by biogas, which is produced from human waste at sewage works across the country.

They believe the car is a viable alternative to electric vehicles.

Excrement flushed down the lavatories of just 70 homes is enough to power the car for 10,000 miles - the equivalent of one average motoring year.

This conversion technology has been used in the past but the Bio-Bug is Britain's first car to run on methane gas without its performance being reduced.

It can power a conventional two litre VW Beetle convertible to 114mph.

Well, one won't tailgate that thing . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7929191/Bio-Bug-Car-run-on-human-waste-is-launched.html
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Re: Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2010, 09:43:33 AM »
BIG DEAL. Sewage treatment plants have been running engines off methane gas since at least back in the 30's. The old is new again, I guess.
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Re: Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2010, 10:40:00 AM »
DAS POOP!
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Re: Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2010, 11:48:11 AM »
A client I work for is building a manure gassification plant for stock yards and feed lots.  According to the research he's done, the local meat plant pays in the neighborhood of $80,000 a month to ship bullshit to the landfill.  With this gassification system, they get to save most of that 80 grand, and even more by using the converted natural gas in their plant instead of purchased natural gas.
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Re: Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2010, 05:44:23 PM »
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Re: Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2010, 08:39:56 PM »
So that's what a dung beetle looks like...

Man, what a scheiss-wagen.
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