Posted on 05/12/2023 11:18:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
May 11 (UPI) -- A Minnesota inventor who gained a following for his unusual vehicles unveiled his latest creation: a beer-powered motorcycle.
Ky Michaelson, whose previous inventions include a rocket-powered toilet and a jet-powered coffee pot, said the beer-powered motorcycle he created in his Bloomington garage has a 14-gallon keg with a heating coil instead of a gas-powered engine.
The coil heats the beer up to 300 degrees, which then becomes super-heated steam in the nozzles that propel the bike forward.
"The price of gas is getting up there. I don't drink. I'm not a drinker, so I can't think of anything better than to use it for fuel," Michaelson told KMSP-TV.
Michaelson estimated the bike could reach speeds of up to 150 mph. He said he hopes to take the bike out to a drag strip sometime soon to test its capabilities.
Michaelson's son, Buddy, said the motorcycle could be adapted to run on almost any beverage.
"It could be any kind of liquid. It could be Red Bull. It could be Caribou Coffee. It could be anything. But beer. Why not," Buddy Michaelson said.
The father and son said the motorcycle will eventually be retired and have a permanent home in Michaelson's at-home invention museum.
Don’t call it a trans-porter tho’.
Just use bud light.
It’s got to be good for something.
For mulvaney, it would have to be something from the old SNL skit “The Ambiguously Gay Duo”.
“ Does it stall if you use Bud Light?”
No, but it will begin to identify as an electric bicycle.
Does it run Bud Lite or is it too watered down?
I thought someone would say it turns into a trike. ;-)
Compliments to him on his inventiveness. But burning up beer in a motorcycle is hardly its best use
——and putting a super heated boiler between your knees might have a down side?
LOL!
Hum… maybe that’s my problem 🤡
Good use for that Bud Lite still sitting on the shelves.
The coil heats the beer up ...
And just what supplies the POWER to the HEATING COIL?
I ain't no scientiss, but the BEER is not 'powering' anything. It is acting like water in a steam engine.
GMTA!
250 year old technology in motorcycle form...
“If it ain’t the beer, then it’s not a beer-powered engine.”
BINGO. It’s just a steam engine. And from the looks of his pictures he is using electricity.
I had to look that SNL skit up. Been so long since I watched that show. That was a good one. “Manly Men” men. They even had tight onesies on.
It’s something to do with all that Bud Light sitting in warehouses. :P
Bud Light isn’t beer, but it should be close enough for this purpose. :P
Ha!
Michaelson is a prime candidate for the next Darwin Award. This is not ‘beer powered’, it’s ‘steam powered’. A beer keg is designed to hold the pressure of dissolved carbon dioxide in the beer, not steam. The energy to propel the vehicle comes from heating it, not from the carbon dioxide. Superheated steam is higher pressure than cold beer. When the keg blows, the driver will become steam fried.
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