{"id":27538,"date":"2010-08-07T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T08:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/this-poop-mobile-could-get-all-its-energy-from-70-homes%e2%80%99-worth-of-methane-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T08:18:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T08:18:34","slug":"this-poop-mobile-could-get-all-its-energy-from-70-homes%e2%80%99-worth-of-methane-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/this-poop-mobile-could-get-all-its-energy-from-70-homes%e2%80%99-worth-of-methane-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"This Poop Mobile Could Get All Its Energy From 70 Homes\u2019 Worth of Methane | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bugbehind\"Last week, we discussed<\/a> a poop-powered rocket. Now a new car promises we’ll see human waste’s potential closer to home–or further from home, but not as far as space. The Bio-Bug<\/a>, a modified Volkswagen Beetle, can run on fuel made from raw sewage.<\/p>

“Biogas upgrading<\/a>” has allowed GENeco, Bio-Bug’s developer and part of the British waste-processing companies that make up Wessex Water<\/a>, to create methane from human waste.<\/p>

<\/span>The process starts with anaerobic digestion: Microbes eat through waste in an airtight, oxygen-free container. They leave behind only digestate, which works as a fertilizer, and a gas mixture that is mostly carbon dioxide and methane. Methane is combustible in the modified car’s engine. So, after removing the carbon dioxide, the company has poop power.<\/p>

Mohammed Saddiq, GENeco’s general manager, says on the company’s site<\/a>, that human waste is only the beginning.<\/p>

“Waste flushed down the toilets in homes in the city provides power for the Bio-Bug, but it won’t be long before further energy is produced when food waste is recycled at our sewage works. . . It will mean that both human waste and food waste will be put to good use . . .”<\/p><\/blockquote>

The company told<\/a> the BBC that Bio-Bug operates (and smells) the same as the fossil fuel-burning alternative, and that waste from 70 homes could generate enough methane to drive the car, assuming it drives about 10,000 miles a year.<\/p>

Related content:
Discoblog: Finally! A Self-Sustaining, Sewage-Processing, Poop-Powered Rocket<\/a>
Discoblog: Buzz Aldrin Explains: How to Take a Whiz on the Moon<\/a>
Discoblog: A Novel Geoengineering Idea: Increase the Ocean’s Quotient of Whale Poop<\/a>
Discoblog: The Coolest Carnivorous Plant\/Toilet Plant You’ll See This Week<\/a><\/p>

Image: flickr \/ Stephen Sullivan Sr.<\/a><\/em><\/p>

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