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"Toilet Bike" Runs on Human Waste AS YOU RIDE
minyanville ^ | Oct 3, 2011 | Justin Rohrlich

Posted on 10/03/2011 7:10:38 PM PDT by posterchild

Okay, someone's finally done it. Question is, what took so long?

Never dreamed poop could get you blazing down the asphalt? Well, now it all comes true as Japan's biggest toilet maker, TOTO, takes the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that's powered entirely by human waste. The bike runs on biogas converted from feces that is harvested directly from the driver -- who sits on the bike's toilet-styled seat.

(Excerpt) Read more at minyanville.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: assphalt; biofuels; brownenergy; crapmobile; dungbuggy; fecalfitness; feces; flushgordon; flushwithenergy; flushwithsuccess; japan; manurati; napl; sleazyrider; toiletbike; toto; turbocrapper; turdbike; turddefrance; turdleydavidson; turdocharger; turdpike
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Can't imagine there is enough CH4 sourced from the average human to go far.
1 posted on 10/03/2011 7:10:38 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild

It would fit quite nicely on the next Mythbusters episode as they were all full of crap with their “green” motorcycle idea.


2 posted on 10/03/2011 7:12:45 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Sarah Palin and John Bolton--- 2012)
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To: admin; moder_ator

double post, please delete.


3 posted on 10/03/2011 7:13:02 PM PDT by posterchild (I'm old enough to remember when journalist bothered to look things up on wikipedia.)
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Wow! Finally congress can pass a renewable energy plan that will actually run the country on the same horse manure that they generate.


4 posted on 10/03/2011 7:13:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: posterchild

Funny, so does the Obama administration.


5 posted on 10/03/2011 7:13:20 PM PDT by Patrick1 ("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: posterchild

ok, limo lefties: put up or shut up.


6 posted on 10/03/2011 7:13:21 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: posterchild

This is the first time I’ve ever heard about anyone wanting to “harvest” crap, but okay.


7 posted on 10/03/2011 7:14:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Didn’t the Japanese recently develop a cheeseburger made of crap?


8 posted on 10/03/2011 7:16:01 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: posterchild

Eat your prunes, take a little ex lax and cruise


9 posted on 10/03/2011 7:16:55 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: Husker24

I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s a crazy world out there right now.


10 posted on 10/03/2011 7:18:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)
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To: posterchild

Well, when the driver runs out of...um...fuel, he can stop the bike and ask a passerby to supply some.


11 posted on 10/03/2011 7:19:38 PM PDT by Krankor
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To: posterchild

This bicycle might break Mach One with the Messiah aboard!


12 posted on 10/03/2011 7:21:21 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: posterchild

Sounds like something off of “South Park”


13 posted on 10/03/2011 7:23:08 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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The “senator” model should be good for warp factor seven.


14 posted on 10/03/2011 7:24:09 PM PDT by labette ( Humble student of Thinkology)
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To: Krankor

Get your motor runnin.
(grunt, grunt)
Head out on the highway
(grunt, grunt)


15 posted on 10/03/2011 7:24:36 PM PDT by posterchild (I'm old enough to remember when journalists bothered to look things up on wikipedia.)
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To: posterchild

What’ll those cwazy Japanese come up with next?


16 posted on 10/03/2011 7:27:57 PM PDT by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: posterchild; Slings and Arrows; Chode
Why does this image from South Park come to mind????
17 posted on 10/03/2011 7:32:22 PM PDT by Morgana ("Since using your shampoo my hair has come alive!" ----Medusa)
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"THAT STINKS"

18 posted on 10/03/2011 7:33:40 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I hope Pelosi gets one for Christmas. She’s so full of it she can get 100 mpt.


19 posted on 10/03/2011 7:34:08 PM PDT by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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To: Morgana
a shitecycle???
20 posted on 10/03/2011 7:38:19 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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