| Title | Bus Powered by Human Poop Begins Service this Week in UK | |
| Date | Tuesday November 25 2014, @10:55AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the don't-call-it-waste-yet dept. | ||
El Reg reports
[The week of November 23,] punters [traveling] between Bristol and Bath will be able to ride on a bus ultimately powered by human poo, the first ever such service in the UK.
The 40-seater "Bio-Bus" will run up to two times a day and is expected to carry around 10,000 passengers a month by tour operator Bath Bus Company. It can travel up to 300km on a full tank of pressurised methane, which is produced from the equivalent annual waste of five people.
The Bio-Bus will be powered by people living in the area "including quite possibly those on the bus itself," said Mohammed Saddiq, GENeco general manager - the company which generates the biomethane gas that will fuel the service. This is done at the Bristol sewage works.
[...]17 million cubic metres of biomethane is generated a year at the Bristol plant. GENeco said this could power 8,300 homes, though in fact most of it is used to power the treatment plant itself. However there is a surplus of biogas left over for projects such as the Poo Bus.
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