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All aboard the Poo Bus! Ding ding, route Number Two departing
Next week punters travelling 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 …
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Friday 21st November 2014 18:43 GMT king of foo
Re: 10,000 passengers a month?
Yes, but roughly half of them will encounter the mystery of the invisible poo
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Saturday 22nd November 2014 01:47 GMT John Brown (no body)
Poo pooing can be fatal to moral
General Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the Army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major, who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!
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Friday 21st November 2014 18:43 GMT Trainee grumpy old ****
Calculations seem a bit off.
If 80 people are carried every day then over 365 days that is 80*365 = 29,200 passengers per year.
Over this time the bus is fuelled by 500 people that means each person shitting propels 29,200/500 = 58.4 passengers.
Even if the bus only carries a quarter of its capacity (20*365 = 7,300) that's still 7,300 / 500 = 14.6 passengers per shitter.
A bit more efficient than 4 shitters per passenger!
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Saturday 22nd November 2014 21:56 GMT mr.K
Re: Calculations seem a bit off.
No, they are not. You have just misunderstood what they are about. They are telling how many people it takes to power the bus, while you look at how many journeys one person can provide fuel for during a year.
The former number makes it easy to compare it to other energy sources and if it can replace them. It is an odd one, but it takes into account the finite supply and you can disregard the size of the population. The latter number can be used to look at how big the supply into the market can be.
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Friday 21st November 2014 21:21 GMT moonrakin
yeah... well
Last time I looked the rough metric was plant every cultivable part of the planet with the best energy source vegetable (or whatever) and you would provide 20% of the energy used from fossil fuel - of course things would improve - since the consequently reducing population would have less demand for energy - there you go - sorted.
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Saturday 22nd November 2014 08:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Other popular sources of bio-gas
Cattle excrement.
Decaying vegetables matter, like those pesky leaves that block trains,
Decaying carcasses, like the remains of Sundays chicken or ex-uncle Bob.
In fact everything organic, I do not mean just that contrived feel good food for relieving guilt, in nature is a source of bio-gas.
So 5 people's leaving may propel one fortunate (?) soul, but the amount of general bio - waste available would be enough to keep us all going.
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Sunday 23rd November 2014 20:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Other popular sources of bio-gas
Very true. However it is my understanding that the need to process the methane to a higher concentration when used as a car or bus fuel means it is overall a less efficient use of energy than for example using it as a source of (heat and/or electrical) energy directly on the farm where the methane is produced and collected, for example. Still has a use as a transportation fuel that does not depend on other countries.
No smells apparent driving a CNG car, BTW, no matter if is running on poo or Russian gas. At least if you don't count the specifically added "marker" smell (and that only if there is a leak).
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Saturday 22nd November 2014 22:25 GMT Henry Wertz 1
How about the exhaust?
You know how those fry oil-powered diesel vehicles kind of smell like french fries? Yeah, hows the exhaust from this bus smell? 8-)
(In all seriousness I do suppose it smells like nothing at all. But I'm surprised that exhaust from biodiesel vehicles smells like anything identifiable either, so I don't really know.)