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Power to the Poo: Yamaha's Methane-Powered Golf Cart

by Peter Mychalcewycz on April 25, 2009 at 03:32 PM

Here's one for you...what do you get when you take Japanese ingenuity, cow dung, four-wheeled transportation, and a bio-fuel processing plant and mix them all together? Why a poo-powered golf cart, of course.

Okay, Yamaha's experimental golf cart runs on methane, but that gas is developed from cow dung. This magical process takes place in Japan's Kartori region at a lovely sounding 'burg called Biomass Town, where the, ahem, solid waste is processed into bio-fuel.

The golf cart comes equipped with a newly-developed 'active carbon' tank filled with low pressure methane, which allows the it to hold up to 30 times its own volume in gas. An added bonus -- it also costs less than a high pressure system.

We aren't sold on methane as a sustainable source of energy (it is still a green house gas, you know), but the process is a fascinating one nonetheless... as long as your not stuck behind it in traffic. And how! [From: DVICE]

Tags: earth day, EarthDay, gardening, golf, poop, sports, summer fun, SummerFun, top, vehicle, yamaha

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