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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Green insanity

The Japanese are famous for coming up with some real lulus of ideas - but a feces-fueled trike?

Poo-Fueled Motorcycle Passes On Gas

Analysis by Nic Halverson Fri Oct 7, 2011 09:20 AM ET
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Travel to a developing country and you may encounter hog toilets: outhouses built over pig pens, where hungry swine anxiously consume what's dropped down the hole and essentially use it as fuel. More or less, a similar idea has recently digested in Japan, only the toilet sits over a different kind of hog.

PHOTOS: 7 Places Poo Will Power The Future
The country's leading toilet maker, TOTO, has created Toilet Bike Neo, a talking hybrid toilet-motorcycle that runs entirely on -- you guessed it -- human waste. The turd trike is part of TOTO's Green Challenge campaign to reduce half of all bathroom carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2017.


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"Bathroom CO2 emissions"? I thought the methane from cow farts was the big problem.

I'll stick with my 650 Special, thanks.

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