''Poop As You Go'' Biogas Bike To Go On 600 Mile Tour Of Japan

[DeSwiss]

''Poop As You Go'' Biogas Bike To Go On 600 Mile Tour Of Japan

Treehugger.com
by Kimberley Mok, Montreal, Canada on 10. 3.11
Cars & Transportation (bikes)



Photos: http://www.toto.co.jp/en/">TOTO

Never dreamed poop could get you blazing down the asphalt? Well, now it all comes true as Japan's biggest toilet maker, http://www.toto.co.jp/en/">TOTO, takes the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that's powered entirely by human waste. The bike runs on biogas converted from feces that is harvested directly from the driver -- who sits on the bike's toilet-styled seat. It gives a new twist to "poop as you go," but that's not the only quirky innovation that this bike will feature.

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2011/09/30/toto-toilet-motorcycle-neo-biogas/">According to Spoon & Tamago:

Toilet Bike Neo is also equipped with some other cool functions. It uses residual light imagery to write messages in the air as it zooms by (you can see an example by scrolling down to their Sep 26 blog entry). It can also play music to entertain spectators. Finally, the toilet actually talks. This is a technology that TOTO has been equipping many of their new toilets with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IJix0tUi8&feature=player_embedded">VIDEO


http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/poop-powered-toilet-bike-toto-japan.php">MORE

- So it's the oil companies, or we can replace them with our own poop. Hmmmm.......

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[Rabblevox]

1. I guess brown is the new green. And just how would you measure fuel efficiency?? /nt

[pinboy3niner]

2. TOTO will have to dump this when it doesn't catch on

It'll be an open-and-shit case.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

3. When I was a little kid...

I thought that airlines could power the engines with natural gas.
All they had to do was feed the passengers beans and other gas producing foods and then equip each seat with a vacuum to collect the gas.

In this day and age, I would be willing to eat stuff to make me fart into a collection seat if it meant a cheaper ticket price.

[liberal N proud]

4. What if you are constipated from the drive?

[biermeister]

5. what a shitty idea! nt.

[Historic NY]

6. Shit or get off the pot.