Manage updates with the Download AppGeneco's VW Beetle gets pep from poop
We've seen cars powered by some crazy things in the past. electricity, chip fat, water, air, hydrogen--as of today, you can add farts to that list.
Engineers from Geneco, a sustainable-energy company owned by Wessex Water, have unveiled a modified Volkswagen Beetle that runs on compressed methane gas extracted from human waste. A Dung Beetle, if you will.
Biogas is generated when filth from Wessex Water's sewage works is put into a decomposition container, where oxygen-starved bacteria break it down to produce methane. The methane is then harvested and placed in tanks inside the boot of the … Read more
