Something different, but it’s not as shitty as it sounds, even if the topic does involve excrement. The bus you see in the pix is called the Bio-Bus, and it’s the UK’s first public transporter to be powered by human poop and food waste, or rather the biomethane gas generated through the treatment of sewage and waste.
The Bio-Bus is operated by the Bath Bus Company and will ply the A4 service from Bath to Bristol Airport via South Bristol, and the 40-seater Scania – which has livery that is unmissable – can travel up to 300 km on a full tank of gas.
The biomethane is generated – through a process known as anaerobic digestion – at the Bristol sewage treatment works, which is run by a company called GENeco. The higher quality gas produced at the plant is injected into the national gas grid network (a first in the country, so it goes), while that which is unfit for human consumption is used to power the bus.
A full tank of gas takes the annual waste of around five people to produce. Given that the Bristol sewage treatment works processes around 75 million cubic metres of sewage waste and 35,000 tonnes of food waste a year (and generates around 17 million cubic metres of biomethane as a result of this), there should be no shortage of fuel to power the Bio-Bus. Brings a new spin to the term of not letting anything go to waste…
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I bet the exhaust smoke will smell worse than shit
Especially when the buses use the biomethane gas produced from your waste.
Well, at least the emissions are still cleaner than fossil fuel, and ‘dirt’ cheap too (pun intended).
Fart and poop smells because of certain gases like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide released from your digestive tract. After processing (most significant factor) and then being burned in an internal combustion engine, I don’t think it’ll smell that much worse than any other gas-powered vehicle. Your petrol/diesel car’s exhaust might smell worse due to the trace toxic chemicals released from sometimes incomplete combustion and impurities in the fuel.
wow…talking about innovation! but the livery on the body of the bus…does it really has to be like that?… :-) anyway, congrats UK!
I hope the ride isn’t crappy.
Imagine when you service it
Shitty news, literally.
so we pay tambang by only shitting and farting on the seat meh ?