Poo powered bus takes to the streets of Bristol

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[Red Squirrel]

I can't help thinking that, for completeness, they should use these for the new MetroBus services.

[bobm]

BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Points West had a report on their 13:30 bulletin showing the plant at Avonmouth where the gas is collected - just as I was eating my lunch.   

[TonyK]

I can't help thinking that, for completeness, they should use these for the new MetroBus services.

It would be entirely appropriate for MetroBust, which is heading for the brown stuff as it is.

[JayMac]

BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Points West had a report on their 13:30 bulletin showing the plant at Avonmouth where the gas is collected - just as I was eating my lunch.   

Avonmouth is not too far from me. And it's the perfect place to collect the fuel for these buses - being somewhat of a 5h1thole.

[TonyK]

Also, given the exterior graphics, one does wonder what type of seat is available (porcelain with sparse padding perhaps?) and if the fuel system is actually self contained?! 

Nah - just bog standard.

[thetrout]

I finally see that my 15+ toilet trips per day actually do some good for once

[chuffed]

I am sure some producers will be interested in hiring this  bus for evacuation scenes set in September 1939....

[TonyK]

This could go viral - it's already gone fecal.

[Cynthia]

Poo-powered street lights are already in use in parts of the USA, the idea being that dog walkers pick up after their pets and tip the 'fuel' into a little generator, which provides lighting in dog walking areas where there wasn't any previously. We need one or two of those in Melksham! 

[Bob_Blakey]

Somewhat surprisingly, it seems that nobody has yet asked if travelling on one of these vehicles results in motion sickness.

[TonyK]

Somewhat surprisingly, it seems that nobody has yet asked if travelling on one of these vehicles results in motion sickness.

Going through the motions? First time I heard that phrase since swimming off Southport.

[JayMac]

From the guardian:

UK^▸ (United Kingdom)'s first 'poo bus' goes into regular service

Bio-Bus fuelled by human and household waste, which first ran between Bristol and Bath, will operate 15-mile route four days a week

Britain^s first ^poo bus^, which runs on human and household waste, goes into regular service this month.

Powered by biomethane gas, the Bio-Bus will use waste from more than 32,000 households along its 15-mile route.

Operated by First West of England, the bus will fill up at a site in Avonmouth, Bristol, where sewage and inedible food waste is turned into biomethane gas.

The bus, which can seat up to 40 people, was unveiled last autumn. First is showing the bus in Bristol on Tuesday before it starts operating four days a week from 25 March.

If the scheme is successful, First will consider introducing more ^poo buses^. The managing director, James Freeman, said: ^Since its original unveiling last year, the Bio-Bus has generated worldwide attention and so it^s our great privilege to bring it to the city.

^The Bio-Bus previously made an appearance running between Bath and Bristol airport at the end of last year, but it^s only actually been used once before in the centre of Bristol itself.

^The very fact that it^s running in the city should help to open up a serious debate about how buses are best fuelled, and what is good for the environment.^

Asked about filling up the bus with the bio-fuel, a spokesman said, "It's a s**t job, but somebody has to do it." 

[TonyK]

Before long, they will be turning water into wine. I shall not be impressed, having achieved the opposite reaction many times over the years. Under many bridges.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Asked about filling up the bus with the bio-fuel, a spokesman said, ...

"... the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind ..." 

[trainer]

According to BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Points West, an amount of human excrement was left behind by the tree-top protesters against the metro bus evicted yesterday.  Not sure whether it was a further comment on the scheme or a deposit of fuel for the new buses.