Poo powered car
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Now, here's a story that'll make your eyebrows rise like a rocket taking off. Brace yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, for the "poop-powered" VW Beetle, a true marvel of modern engineering and, dare I say, biological wizardry. It's not your run-of-the-mill car; it's the first in the UK to run on gas derived from the nether regions of sewage sludge. You heard me right!
Picture this: it's a classic convertible Beetle, just like any other, except for a little secret tucked away in the boot - two sizable cylinders of methane. The car still has a regular fuel tank, and a teeny bit of petrol gets it going, but within seconds, it gracefully switches to biogas, thanks to those methane-filled cylinders.
Now, what's really fascinating is the potential of this "poo-powered" Bug. Wessex Water, the masterminds behind this creation, reckon that the yearly waste from 70 average households could keep this car chugging along for a whopping 10,000 miles (or 16,100 kilometers, for our metric friends). How's that for putting waste to work?
So, how does it all work, you might wonder? Well, it's a bit like a mini sewage miracle. The gas is brewed up through a process called anaerobic digestion, where special bugs (the microbial kind, not the VW Beetle kind) break down biodegradable stuff in the absence of oxygen, producing lovely methane.
Now, you'd think a car running on sewage would be a real stinker, but let me tell you, it's as odorless as a daisy on a spring morning. No unpleasant aromas here, folks!
In the past, attempts to fuel cars with this kind of biogas didn't exactly do wonders for performance, but fear not! Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, this Bio-Bug drives like a champ, just like your regular VW Beetle.
Assuming this six-month trial goes swimmingly, GENeco, the clever folks over at Wessex Water, plan to convert their entire fleet of vehicles to run on biogas. Talk about a company with its eyes on the future and its carbon footprint in check.
Now, across the pond in Sweden, they're already rocking a fleet of over 11,500 vehicles powered by biomethane from sewage plants, so this isn't just a pipe dream; it's a blueprint for the future.
And you know what, folks? In a land where recycling often stops at sorting your trash, turning human waste into fuel is nothing short of the pinnacle of green innovation. Kudos to the mad scientists who turned this wild idea into a reality!
Finally....a Save the Planet idea that has REAL immediate merit.
Wonderful
I want a poo-powered van with a toilet in it
lol
I call crap shotgun.
By a motor home lol
Wow... A real poop mobile... Excellent. What a fabulous use of natural waste.
Now u can really say my car goes like sh*t off a shovel... 😎
Very good Selina - I should have used that one in the report. Thanks for watching.
@@Britclip volatile gas at 200 psi? I hope those tanks are bullet-proof
Methane also a byproduct of organic material decomposition. A major contributor to global warming.
@Galv140577 Well they store all sorts of combustibles in tanks including oxygen. The reliability of the tanks shouldn't be an issue. I don't think the trunk is ever a good spot tho. The " boot".😂
@@ross_ulbright7779Yeah I'd go with those long tanks that welders use and undermount them, or build them into a truck bed's side walls
How many miles can a methane car drive?
Where can I buy one from?
The bleeding obvious . Not electric ...biogas . No new car, just convert the one you've got .
Most people pass gas at a rate of 24 times per day. So you would have to eat some raunchy stuff. To have that reserve you need fir when those tanks run out. If they could just hook a re-gen so when you pass gas inti the seat. It was vacuumed into the combustion boosters.
Just think eating pizza could get that last ten miles.
Interesting concept Warren.
methane doesn't compress very well unless its extremely cold so I wonder how much is actually stored in those two tanks?
Actually, compressing methane is really simple and cooling is used for liquefing the methane
Definitely replace petrol and diseal. Starship space x has raptor engines powered off mathane and is incredibly cheap. Much better for the environment especially in cities lots people around health concerns.
Im curious if we can use this in a large scale application like high torque or big movers like bulldozers.
Next car is to make it run hybrid to use methane and hydrogen.
So, those two tanks at 200 PSI, exactly how many miles of driving does that translate to? Liquids are denser than gas, so, i'm guessing the two tanks we saw represents a VERY SHORT range between refills.
My local gas company says that a modern gas powered VW Golf has a range of about 500km, about 200km less than a regular petrol powered VW Golf.
From what I have read so far it seems comparible to the lpg cars, brc, prins, stag and more make conversion kits.
As it stands I get about 200 miles from a spare wheel tank, and lpg costs about 60/90 /litre
Maybe as a flex fuel alternative type vehicle
@@someguy7222 Ev hybrid could be good.
How far does the car go on full tanks and how much the fuel costs,?
The idea of biogas is wonderful along with the bug model both if introduced in a country like India it will be a huge success rather than UK....
What do u mean??
Excellent!
Piss would be better. We go more often and can have strangers help fill our tanks on the side of the road if we run out of fuel.
Imagine instead of spending 50$ for a tank of gas all you have to do is poop
The prophecy of Madmax
One problem with mad max, no ammonia/electric hybrids.
Lol Brazil you got 24 hrs
Awesome. Some guy is working on bacteria battery. Sounds like there's exhaust to this car if real, but you'd think the exhaust can be burned off like they do with "flaring." Maybe friction heat can help with that if necessary. Probably optimized cultures and source matter can go in tanks, but seems like it should be ev hybrid with the methane powering the battery.
When you burn methane it turns mostly into Co2 and water, which is a lot less harmful than methane. If humans are going to produce waste, might as well benefit
@@FletcherHillier Okay, but I'm not sure engine exhaust is same as burning it. I will try to read up on that point in case it's different. I do suspect genetically modifying some crops, maybe with bamboo genes and or seaweed growing on land, high methane yield is possible. Removing the exhaust emissions definitely priority that point, but open air carbon capture machines can probably be built to run pretty efficiently from bio diesel or any range of fuels because its not a traveling car machine, just stationary.
@@sampleoffers1978 An engine is definitely burning fuel. Biogas plants attached to animal farms can capture a lot of methane, and humans produce a lot of waste that could feed biogas plants as well.
@@FletcherHillier It's burning liquified methane sure. In Europe they burn the gas directly....Won't be legal here. I'm asking if the exhaust really is co2 and water? Methanol? If that's true, then co2 is manageable to remove if efficient open, carbon capture machines are built to remove co2. If the exhaust is more complex, it's issue. Ammonia is trending topic now. Unsafe for cars in regular form, but for hybrid ev's, ammonia could be easy storage of renewable energy, making charging network way easier for ev's. Small ammonia powered generator or motor in hybrid could charge ev battery.
Watch this...a life saver for manual scavengers
Very clever a turd being powered by poo brilliant!
im not sure but i think petrol is already made from sewage isnt that obvious?
why would a cities economy be based on fuel if that wasnt the thing it produces?
then you rethink what are roads ashfalt roofs all the way to plastic money..... ya i dont get why we dont talk seriouly about the real world
feed a city run a pipe to deep water to use the high pressure age exceleration process send it to a refinery ect
Make be useful
There’s a Bus that runs on human waste or Methane. But could cars run on Methane. Methane is considered as dangerous. Even thinking about Hydrogen is also as dangerous.
Maybe smaller tanks can charge battery in hybrid electric and then larger explosion is mitigated. Might also have ability to design it to flare off emissions anyway.
Now this is a prober shitbox.