Well, at least you don’t have to shovel it in…but I wonder…what sort of “new car smell” does this car have when it is fresh from the factory?
Get the poop on this story here. I foresee a future episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.
And, if this is the license plate of a Prius owner (which I spotted on I-5 in California)…
…what sort of vanity license plate would an owner of a car like this new Bio Bug have?
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Shovel ready jobs.
“Its makers claim drivers cannot tell the difference.”
Methane is methane. People should really get a minimum of chemistry education. It has nothing to do with the car but more about where the methane comes from… just a publicity stunt…. a stinking that is!
Those Prius owners are going to feel like ‘suckers’ when they have to pony up for new batteries.
And… let’s see… every million urban inhabitants generate enough “waste” to create methane for what, 5 cars? 50?
Fantastic! I drive little so where can I sell it ??
Its a dung beetle.
It’s the stuff they put in the water that worries me 😉
Henry chance says:
August 6, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Shovel ready jobs.
HAHAHA!!! When I read that the first thing I said was “Oh sh*t..”!…..hahaha
Seriously though, 1 car per 70 households. Nice. What a wonderful utilization of time, money, effort…ect. There are too many puns and jokes out there to start. “I was in the auto industry, but business went to …….”
A VW Beetle ??!! It’s a dung beetle.
Well that’s just great, what are the other 69 homes supposed to do?
car pool?
Shouldn’t Mr. Fusion from “Back to the Future” be pretty standard by now? Emmett Brown had one in 2015.
Absolutely nothing wrong with putting our waste to use. But it gives a whole new meaning to, “My car is a piece of ___!”
It really says something about electric vehicles that they can’t really outperform a car whose fuel is sewage gas. They’re hardly worth a poop.
From 1971
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transporation/1971-07-01/The-Marvelous-Chicken-Powered-Motorcar.aspx
BMW’s entire paint shop is powered by the stuff.
By the time you use it it is just LNG.
Scrubbing is done at the sewage treatment plant.
This is not new.
Will they make the fuel filler holes bigger. The current small ones will be a challenge.
Didn’t Adam Sandler have a song about that car? “Piece of s…. car. I’ve got a piece of s…. car.”
One bio-bug for every 70 homes? Not much in the way of economies of scale. The rest of you can ride your bikes to save the planet. Wait — didn’t they used to excel in this activity a generation ago in China? I wonder how that worked out …
Thirty years ago we were rearing day-old chicks under methane-burning brooders powered by gas from digesting pig manure. Worked a treat; stank like the Devil!
The digested manure was good for immediate spreading without fear of ‘burning’ emerging crops with too strong a fertilizer.
Ahh! I can smell it now. Or was that a VW?
Geez, no h/t for this?
Perhaps this vehicle can also burn the other large source of human waste–the IPCC reports.
REPLY: Oh gosh, I’m sorry, but I saw it elsewhere, poop travels fast. -A
I like this. It recycles everything. It re-emits CO2 and is a great way to recycle cow farts, so it is a carbon neutral solution. We eat carbon based stuff (CO2 absorbing plants and animals that ate plants) and poop it out, which is used to make methane, which we put in our cars, thus the exhaust, which includes CO2, is putting back what we took out when filling up with methane. Kinda like being in a time warp. Is there a recipe for it (like there is for veggy diesel)?
Has a weird exhaust note. Sort of a pooppooppoop sound.
RE: The Prius picture, look at the oncoming traffic.
Now, no passenger vehicle can win against a truck, but I want to drive a vehicle that gives me a chance against the (dreaded) SUV.
So, that’s what I drive. Always will.
Two points:
This would never have happened without a generous government subsidy – it wasn’t worth the effort upgrading their equipment to produce the purified compressed methane gas without free money (which means it’s not worth the tax-payers money either)
They already had equipment using the sewer gas to power the sewage plant. They could simply have sold their excess electricity to the grid, but that doesn’t have nearly the same impact as saying they’re running a car on sh*t. “Sewage plant carries on doing what it’s done for the last 30 years.” Not really headline material…
In short it’s a vanity project, a bit of attention seeking, and a way to get their plant upgraded at the expense of us taxpaying plebs.
Friday Not-So-Funny. Just watched an ABC World News hit piece on GLOBAL WARMING!!!! They made sure to hit all the high points, graphs from NASA (actually GISS), record heat waves, record droughts, 2010 hottest year on record, from climate scientists: “We predicted these extreme weather events all along, and here they are!”
Climate Change Deniers! As directly said by the (so-called) reporter!
Oh well, should have expected it. Cap (wealth creation) and Trade (away hope of recovery) looks dead. The BP leak is resolving nicely, as speculated here the mess was practically self-cleaning between evaporation and the Gulf’s own microbes eating nearly all of the remaining oil, and BP CEO Hayward, who was essentially fired by Obama, was proven correct in asserting the spill and the dispersants would not be a great issue given the sheer volume of water in the gulf, and the fishermen are going back to work.
And the MSM is desperately avoiding talking about Michelle Obama’s ‘little getaway with friends’ in Spain where her and associates are living it up like royalty (which real royalty doesn’t even do anymore) courtesy of the American taxpayers.
Guess all that indignant liberal outrage has to be directed somewhere… Guess it’s time to invest in some coveralls and a full face shield in case that “outrage” splatters in my direction…
I just drove by about a thousand power windmills in Texas. Only a small portion were turning. They were pointing in slightly different directions. Don’t know if they swivel, but all-in-all it looks like a huge waste of scenery as well as money.