Posted on 01/27/2019 6:01:57 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Good news, ass-havers! The answer is yes. Even better news is that the vast majority of what's likely to be expelled from your butt has potential to run a car, which is likely the best use for anything that comes out of any butt anywhere. So let's see how this ass-power works.
….... two of the most common forms of ass ejecta, flatus and feces. From these two human exhaust products, there's two primary elements that can be harvested to use to run a car: methane and hydrogen.
100ml isn't a hell of a lot— in fact, it's about 0.026 of a gallon, so that means you'd need just over a month to make a gallon of outgas. It would take you months and months to fill an 8 gasoline gallon equivalent (GGE) tank like the one in the Honda Civic CNG.
Oh, and remember, of that 100 ml fart, only 30% of that (at best) is methane — so to do this right, you'd want to pool a whole community of farts. It's really the only way.
How best to do this? I'd suggest some sort of bladder-filled fart-collector underpants, which would be both sexy and practical. If we had a large group of fart-producing citizens wearing flatus-collection unmentionables and "uploading" their production to a shared facilities, the methane could be extracted from the flatus, compressed, and placed into standard pressurized CNG tanks, ready to drive your Civic to the next In-And-Out, beginning the cycle anew.
Incredible. Essentially free energy as long as everyone's willing to walk around with a rubber tube up their ass. I can't think of a better way for someone to prove their commitment to the environment and energy independence than that.
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
Much of the watermelon whining related to animal husbandry would be addressed if we as a nation took a serious look at biomass digestion of agricultural waste products.
Its not just a conversation for ecowhackos either. Our nations energy production is too centralized, too monopolized, and too fragile. While biogas cant come anywhere close to supplying our present needs, it would be a small, admittedly very small, step in the right direction toward reversing these trends and making our production more secure.
Well said.
Well said.
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By the way .... that is a rather absurdly, unnecessary and nasty way of portraying the motives of the writer.
After all there is a lot of interesting information therein that many would never have seen had not the title drawn their "SOPHOMORIC" attention.
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