• Bio-Bug, UK's First Sewage-Powered Car, Takes to the Streets
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[QUOTE]Think your car runs like crap? A sewage utility in Bristol, UK, has converted a Volkswagen Beetle to run on human waste. The Bio-Bug is the first car in the UK to run on byproducts of sewage processing, and if its trial run is successful Wessex Water, the utility company that made the car, might build a whole fleet of them. Wessex's Avonmouth sewage treatment plant was already producing methane gas, which it refined from the waste treatment process and used to power the facility. But there was surplus gas available and the company didn't like to see it going to waste. So they decided to build a sustainable car. Doing so wasn't necessarily easy or cheap -- GENeco (a subsidiary of Wessex) had to import special equipment, to refine the biogas to an extent that it didn't adversely affect the car's performance. But Bio-Bug is now running efficiently enough that just 70 local homes can power it for a year, assuming an annual mileage of roughly 10,000 per year. Sewage-to-methane conversion is just the first step of GENeco's eco-ambitious agenda. The company soon plans to begin recycling food waste at their plant -- perhaps a smart move since recent studies have suggested Americans alone discard more energy in food waste than is produced by all of the oil and gas reserves laying off American shores. More waste means more bio-methane means more cars can run on the stuff which, by the way, does not smell foul when it's burned in the car's engine. It's not a permanent fix for the world's oil dependency problems obviously, but it is a good way for a public utility to run an energy neutral operation while reducing its own fleet's need for gasoline, reducing both carbon emissions and costs to the public at the same time. [img]http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/biobug.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2010-08/bio-bug-uks-first-sewage-powered-car[/url] This is pretty damn cool, to be honest.
the slogan just does not work well v:v:v
I'm all for helping the environment, but can't they make it look decent, too? I don't think ridiculous insect paint-jobs are necessary
Wow, I expected a lot of shit posts right away. :rimshot:
I wonder what it smells like.
It runs on the runs.
what a shitty car
I'd hate to be a motorcyclist stuck behind that.
I wonder where someone stops to fill it up on a road trip...or do they just take a shit on the side of the road? :ohdear:
I bet to refill this car all you need is to insert your dick into fuel injector, and piss. Pissing into car full of piss. [editline]10:29PM[/editline] or more likely shit into car full of shit.
THE shit man. ... What? It had to be said. :v:
this idea stinks
What a waste [editline]07:09PM[/editline] You know I'm quite embarrassed to be a part of this whole pun thing
If I saw a car with that slogan drive past me, I'd be a little disgusted. That's my opinion, anyway.
Don't think of it as a car, so much as a port-o-potty on wheels!
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;23882746]Don't think of it as a car, so much as a port-o-potty on wheels![/QUOTE] Ha, it'd be pretty handy when you're driving on the highway and need to take a dump or you're running low on gas but there's no station for miles.
[QUOTE=GodKing;23882822]Ha, it'd be pretty handy when you're driving on the highway and need to take a dump or you're running low on gas but there's no station for miles.[/QUOTE] God help you if you're low on gas, but haven't eaten anything
Just methane gas, nothing new.
No longer can one complain "This tincan runs like shit!"
You know how cars that run on fast food oils smell like french fries and stuff, wonder what these cars will smell like driving by?
[QUOTE=Badunkadunk;23886658]You know how cars that run on fast food oils smell like french fries and stuff, wonder what these cars will smell like driving by?[/QUOTE] Shit.
"Powered by your waste!" Yeah, that's how I wanna meet the ladies. [editline]08:35PM[/editline] Imagine if someone pulled up to you in that fucker
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;23886715]"Powered by your waste!" Yeah, that's how I wanna meet the ladies. [editline]08:35PM[/editline] Imagine if someone pulled up to you in that fucker[/QUOTE] I would shit on their car. Oh wait
They just had to use a Beetle. Now lets put this car on Top Gear and see how it does.
[QUOTE=Leo Leonardo;23881691]What a waste [editline]07:09PM[/editline] You know I'm quite embarrassed to be a part of this whole pun thing[/QUOTE] because your pun is horrible [editline]08:52AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Ori Child;23878541]I wonder what it smells like.[/QUOTE] OP says is smells fine
how fast can it go
Convert a ford focus (popular car it is) to run off shit then market it without shitty paint jobs and fuck me poople might buy it [editline]03:21PM[/editline] lol poo
Next step: [img]http://journeyhomeburke.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/mr-fusion.jpg[/img]
Take a shit in the car and you can drive it? o_o
I've always been not giving a thought about the whole gasoline\hybrid\corn\water power thing, but I have to admit: if this became standard, it would be awesome. In the trunk, you could have an emergency minifridge filled with tortillas. Run low on gas + eat tortillas = Fill up on gas.
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