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Posted on 11/21/2014 2:15:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
The 40-seat “Bio-Bus” runs on biomethane gas, generated through the treatment of sewage and food waste. It can travel up to 186 miles on one tank of gas, which takes the annual waste of around five people to produce.
The bus is run by Bath Bus Company and will transport passengers between Bath and Bristol Airport.
Engineers believe the bus could provide a sustainable way of fuelling public transport while improving urban air quality.
The gas is generated at Bristol sewage treatment works, run by GENeco, a subsidiary of Wessex Water. It produces fewer emissions than traditional diesel engines and is both renewable and sustainable.
This week, the company also became the first in the UK to inject gas generated from human and food waste into the national gas grid network.
Mohammed Saddiq, general manager of GENeco, said: “Through treating sewage and food that’s unfit for human consumption we’re able to produce enough biomethane to provide a significant supply of gas to the national gas network that’s capable of powering almost 8,500 homes as well as fuelling the Bio-Bus
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Every passenger gets a set of nose plugs with each ticket?
What a crock of s***!
They need these in DC. The supply of fuel appears to be inexhaustible.
Can you imagine riding behind the poo bus? Talk about a road clearer!
When it hits the brakes, it gives new meaning to the term “skid mark”.
Ping.
Metamucil and Dulcolax will buy ad space on the bus.
My first thought as well.
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The jokes are writing themselves as we speak.
This may really work. I wouldn’t be so quick to make jokes and poo poo the idea.
Can’t imagine why I chuckled upon learning “Bath Bus Company” was/is the name of the company using #2’s as fuel.
It also said about 5 people’s waste per year fuels a bus.
Is that an average? Seems to me that a ‘beef eating’, bean using person would provide more ‘power’ than say a ‘Vegan’?
Give new meaning to the “I don’t give a $hiite”... the suppliers can say, “My droppings transport a few hundred people a day around the area”
Guess you could call that ‘giving back to the community’...
AND, giving a Shiite.
Outstanding! (Well, there went another keyboard!!!)
Gives new meaning to “Thrown under the Bus”
Yeah, Barry’s new ground transport ride......The CrapMobile...
Many cars in the USA were converted to methane burning poo cars during WWII to bypass gasoline rationing.
I think it should be named the “obama bus”.
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