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Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
The Telegraph ^
| 8/6/2010
| Laura Roberts
Posted on 08/07/2010 9:03:21 AM PDT by freebilly
The Bio-Bug has been converted by a team of British engineers to be powered by biogas, which is produced from human waste at sewage works across the country. They believe the car is a viable alternative to electric vehicles.
Excrement flushed down the lavatories of just 70 homes is enough to power the car for 10,000 miles - the equivalent of one average motoring year.
This conversion technology has been used in the past but the Bio-Bug is Britain's first car to run on methane gas without its performance being reduced. It can power a conventional two litre VW Beetle convertible to 114mph.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biogas; co2; commoderlane; exlaxspecial; fillerup; gasngo; greens4constipation; methane; pantfullpower; poopercoupe; stinky500; whattaload
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Kinda cool in a crappy kinda way....
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:03:23 AM PDT
by
freebilly
To: freebilly
Bet the cab of the vehicle smells .... ah! Oh man!
Sometimes we can smell gas inside the vehicle. This could be too much.
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:05:08 AM PDT
by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: freebilly
They have one set up for NASCAR that’s sponsored by Bush Beans.
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:07:07 AM PDT
by
donhunt
(Where does this totalitarian ashwipe get off telling me I can't chose for myself?)
To: freebilly
We’ll get Cheryl Crow to drive the first one.After all,she’s *already* using only one piece of TP per “visit”.
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:07:22 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
To: K-oneTexas
Can’t wait to see the photo op of Obama behind the wheel:turd-in -chief driving the turdmobile.
To: freebilly
New! From GM! The Cr@prolet!
The Offalmobile! Not your farter’s Offalmobile!
The BMDungaU
The new Pootiac!
To: K-oneTexas
Hey..., the car’s low on fuel! Quick, pull my finger...!
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:08:50 AM PDT
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
To: freebilly
So if I’m behind that car, it will be farting in my direction??
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:10:58 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: freebilly
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:12:21 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: freebilly
Excrement flushed down the lavatories of just 70 homes is enough to power the car for 10,000 miles - the equivalent of one average motoring year.
Excrement flushed in the course of one day?, fortnight?, month?, year?, decade?, eon?
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:14:15 AM PDT
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
To: freebilly
Does this mean I’ll have to install a commode in the driver’s side of the car?
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:18:11 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: freebilly
...guess we know where the term s**t car came from now
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:20:48 AM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Jack Hydrazine
Why stop with just the driver? Do you know how many miles you can get from having auto-potty seats for the passengers? Plus you’ll get to use the commuter lane....
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:24:14 AM PDT
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
To: posterchild
I think it’s the waste from 70 homes over the course of a year.
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:25:33 AM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: posterchild
Excrement flushed in the course of one day?, fortnight?, month?, year?, decade?, eon?You want a news story to actually contain relevant information...?
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:29:19 AM PDT
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
To: freebilly
The idea sure does stink but there are some advantages to it! HOV lane here I come!
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:30:52 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: donhunt
These jokes just write themselves.
To: gogogodzilla
So there will be ONE car for every SEVENTY homes?
Yep,this thing is a load of enviromentalist crap.
Someone should explain to these fools there is no perpetual motion system.Without energy input in the form of solar radiation ,all those lovely little plants will die.Etc.
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:35:11 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: freebilly
How fart does the car run on an average dump? Probably about 50 feet.
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:45:20 AM PDT
by
MIchaelTArchangel
(Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
To: freebilly; Slings and Arrows; maggief; martin_fierro; Spotsy; Smartass; Happy2BMe; Allegra; ...
Note: The new TurdMobile is in no way connected with the Flying Turd.
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posted on
08/07/2010 9:47:00 AM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Double your income... Fire the government)
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