Bio Fuel

Another interesting story in The Week magazine's December 5, 2014 edition... This time about bio fuel, but different than the use of animal dung to generate methane for cooking and heating in India and Kenya. I have been occasionally following a young Brown University graduate who moved to Kenya to build bio fuel tanks for farmers - can't remember the name of his company or web site at the moment, very frustrating. (On 2/26 I now remember the name of the company - Takamoto Biogas.)

In any event, this is what I found and thought I would share with the universe:

Taking the No. 2, after a British company unveiled a bus powered by human poop. The 40-seat Bio Bus runs on gas generated by decomposing garbage and sewage generated by people in the area, “including, quite possibly, those on the bus itself,” said a company spokesman.

Come on, you have to admit, this is brilliant. Gross, but brilliant. Now if only we can get over our healthy aversion to our own waste.... I know we need to find it disgusting so that we did not eat where we pooped as an evolving organism, but now that we know so much more about our gut and the role bacteria plays in our health, using a waste product to fuel our ability to get round town, that's pretty good.