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Would you do poo? Yamaha's methane-powered golf cart
I'm all for going green as the next person, but there has to be a line where you can be too green. Poo-powered vehicles? Yamaha Motor Co. has taken alternative power to a new level with a cow-painted golf cart powered by poo. Well, not directly, but the vehicle runs off poo-derived methane.
In Japan's Katori region, in Biomass Town to be exact, cow poo is processed into biofuel and then ultimately into methane gas. The bovinesque golf cart gets a tank of low pressure methane with a newly developed active carbon technology. The tank can hold up to 30 times its volume in methane at a lower cost than a high-pressure system. Yamaha is testing this on a golf course near Biomass Town, perhaps dodging cow patties in the field.
Is that really a divot on the fairway?
Japan for Sustainability via Inhabitat
By JP at 1:57 PM ON 04/21/09
Hey if it saves the world (or helps a bit) I'm all for poo powered carts!
By democratsarefascists at 2:28 PM ON 04/21/09
As always, the metaphor is obvious.
Both this vehicle and the idea that the world needs saving are powered by the same thing.
Crap.
Environmentalists and their puppet politicians like Obama are the worst thing that ever happened to environmentalism.
By Jronhock at 2:43 PM ON 04/29/09
What is your problem?
I have lived my whole life isolated from other people because of that attitude. We are all human and we should not treat each other like shit just because we can, and maybe you should think Obama in the last 100 days has done more than any president in history concerning the welfare of our country. Unlike Bush who made some serious mistakes and sent us down the crapper. And anyway, why not try being cleaner and friendlier to the environment -- there is nothing wrong with that. But you're right, this car is useless.
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