The concept is awesome. However, as with all other fuel sources this one will be sweeped under the rug by big oil. God bless the US *sarcasm*

Yeah, you could power a car by shit gas. Just get some big oil executive to talk into your gas tank.

well, this is one of the most craziest and innovative ways to adapt since the windmill. i would definately consider purchasing this product.

and where is it availible??

Yeah, really, where do I get one? I want it!

i'l tell you all that when i bend over and poop outside that i almost get blown over by the force of the crap coming out of my ass.

trully an idea whose time has come. But as I have always said"When shit becomes of value,the poor will be born without assholes"

Mr. Christopher Maltin has never fuelled a single vehicle from his patent digester system as the digester dose not work properly. He has wasted much money and time on a fundamentally flawed design of digester. The digester takes more energy to power it than the methane gas it produces, which then has to be scrubbed of the CO2 that the digester also produces. The CO2 is then vented to atmosphere. Think, Think, Think, Please uses your head and Think don’t believe every thing you read.

HALALUJIAH!!!! Someone is finally coming around to my way of thinking.

Ever since the sharp increase in gas prices, I have been saying to people that methane is a good alternative (local yuppies usually look at me like I have two heads when I say things like that). It can come from not only manure, but also from our local landfills.

All animals produce bodily excrete, also us humans are constantly producing garbage. Most of this stuff (including sewage) is simply burried in the local landfill, never to be used of seen again. This material is constantly producing methane gas.

I feel it is a great alternative fuel. Sure we need to develop the technology to make the system work, why not?
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It's not nice to fool mother nature.

My car IS a piece of shit. Should it be able to fuel itself? Hmmmm...I wonder...

Wow, this article has an echo!

AC, please don't be a flash in the pan! Stick around at PR because you make me laugh uncontrollably!

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If a man farts and no one's around, does he make a sound?

Wow not only does it power my feet it powers the wheels on the bus.

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No one is the same after I release my Methane!

Expand this concept to the world of jet propulsion. You could sing about mine being the shit beneath your wings.

yeah and we shouldnt just sit here and talk about it we should rally the government to use alternative fuels

As a stupid investor in the Maltin process I can confirm that its a load of crap

So does that mean a future merger between Taco Bell and British Petroleum?

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You have the right to remain Silent but Deadly....

I would like to hear from anyone who like me and several friends have invested a great deal of money with Mr Maltin. We are considering a joint action to recover our "investment"

Address to write to is Investor, 12 Sedemnadest
Pchelishte, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria 5048

Actually, in Africa a large number of farms collect offgas from decaying waste, dead animals & crop waste , collect it in large rubber cballons & use it as fuel, now.

Many places in the mid east paint their hot wter tanks black & place them on the roof.

Poop power IS coming, actually there are buss lines tht use natural gas to power fleets. The gas from sewage treatment plants has, for decades, powered their pumps & compressors. However most of the offgas from farms in the US is wasted.

The guru of Poop Report, Dave, could possibly confirm or deny this but I seem to remember reading about poop being collected in rural Indian villages and placed in methane converters. I have also read that some pig operations wash the pig poop off the floors into converters where it is changed into fuel and leaves a high quality residual fertilizer.

A friend who worked in a sewage treatment plant once gave me a few bags of sludge which had been composted and sprayed on beds of sand to dry. It was odorless and looked like charcoal. I used it to fertilize a row of bell peppers. the resulting crop was so heavy it broke limbs off the plants. I gave away bushels and bushels of peppers that year.

Shit is only pollution when it is in the wrong place. Correctly used it can be a great resource.

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I was actually just talking about this topic at work and there ARE vehicles that use shit as fuel. You can use it to make biodiesel. The person I was talking to also works at the local university and they use chicken shit and cow manure from school's farms to make biodiesel to drive the transit busses that bus students all over campus and town. And if I remember correwctly, the Indy cars used to use methane gas. If we can design busses and race cars that use this fuel. Why not regular cars?

Something that I saw on public TV several years ago comes to mind, perhaps Blind Mullet or some other Aussie can help me with this. The program said that since a great deal of energy is expended in stopping a bus they had figured out how to store this energy and use it a little while later in excelerating the vehicle. I don't recall what city had done this but the modification cost about $900 per vehicle and resulted in a fuel saving of about 15%. This sounds like a technology that could, and should, be used on all vehicles.
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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 07.08.2006

you are clearly retarded.

Very interesting, an Anonymous Coward calls an Anonymous Coward retarded. What next?

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Jeffy like ribs!

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