This is the Poop-Powered Motorcycle That Runs on…Human ‘Biogas’
- Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:18pm by
Liz Klimas
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Toto's Toilet Bike Neo (Photo: TotoTalk)
Inspiration from The Wizard of Oz may have come into play when Toto was put onto a bike. But you’re probably picturing the wrong image: Toto, in this case, is a toilet.
Meet the world’s first — and hopefully the last — poop-powered motorcycle. The Japanese toilet manufacturer, Toto, created a tricycle motorcycle that runs on biogas (human waste), according to the blog Spoon Tamango (via Treehugger).
(Photo: TotoTalk)
Yesterday, Toilet Bike Neo left Toto headquarters riding across Japan from Kyushu to Tokyo – pitt stops not really necessary except to showcase the vehicle to gawkers. It also stopped to pay tribute to a derriere-shaped rock.
Off she goes. (Photo: TotoTalk)
Toilet Bike Neo stops to let fans take a load off. (Photo: TotoTalk)
Pitt stop at a butt-shaped boulder in Nakatsu, Japan. (Photo: TotoTalk)
Running on biogas is not the only feature it boasts. Neo also has the capability to write messages in the air as it’s moving and it plays music and can talk. Talking is apparently a feature of quite a few Toto toilets, many of which tell fortunes and weather forecasts.
Illustration depicting Neo's features. (Image: TotoTalk)
It is unclear whether the ride of this bike will actually defecate into the toilet, providing their own biofuel, or if the bike will run on a tank of contained biogas on the back.
(Photo: TotoTalk)
Toto created the bike as part of its Toto Green Challenge campaign, which set a goal of achieving a 50 percent reduction in CO2 emissions in bathrooms by 2017. If you are interested in learning more about Neo’s inception, check out Toto’s blog.
[h/t Gawker]
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SgtB
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 11:52amThis sounds alot better than the other japanese idea of what to do with human excrement. Anyone else recall the poop patties from a few months ago? Sewage burger vs. poop powered trike? I’m with the trike on this one.
Report Post »Akbarjonnie Shaheed
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 4:34pmObamacycle part of the new GM milage savers
Report Post »otmonger
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 7:04pmI can’t wait to get a **** bike. Oh I have one. Never mind.
Report Post »theonounser
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 12:32pmThe libs could power the world with all bs they spew out.
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 12:08pmThe wall street protesters need this to keep the parks clean. Oh wait,….forget it they might spread out around the country on those crappy wheels.
It might be a good idea for bikers as they won’t get run over as much. After all who wants to hit a $h*t house with their car and chance a load through their window.
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:40amI wouldn’t want to be downwind of those things!
Report Post »WBoyd
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 8:32amThe Japs have gotten so strange! They are deffinately giving us a run for the title “Retarded”
Report Post »piper60
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:32amwrite your own jokes here. Having said that, The deems in the senate could get all the way across the country on this thing without having to stop for lunch!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 3:12amShould make the cut for obamaMotors 2012 lineup!
Report Post »Bevrages
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 1:50am. . . can’t . . . stop . . . laughing . . . brilliant.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 11:21pmI find the “concept” techno gadgets fascinating. I remember reading Popular Mechanics in the mid 60′s about this crazy light machine the scientists could only run at night because it used too much electricity.
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this light machine is called a laser.
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It is one thing to laugh at THE SKY IS FALLING global warming crap
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these people AND companies put their money and reputations on the line to show proof of concept.
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Thomas Edison tested hundreds of light bulb concepts until he finally got it right.
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I have a dual flush crapper at home retailed for less than $20. And yes I have been following this concept for a few years. have had it for a year and it paid for itself already.
paintbrushbright
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 9:57pmYou got to change over to a 100% bean diet if you want to race!
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 8:04pm“We’ll never make it home. Quick, Darling, More bran!”
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 6:19pmSlap HD on it and the greentards will buy into it.
butt butt butt butt buttin down the road.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:30pmWith all of the “FUEL” provided by D.C., these could be issued to every American.
Report Post »String Bean
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:08pmAll we need is another Japanese pos!
Report Post »sabrinacle
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:37pmlmAo!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 4:30pmIt’s…. an ObamaMobile!
Report Post »mollypitch
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 3:57pmUnbelievable and funny! Yet very practical, seeing as the world is in fact full of it!
Report Post »mollypitch
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 3:56pmOh my gosh! I think this should be mainstreamed seeing as the world if full of it!
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:05pmLet’s ride and break some wind Molly.. carefully though, no skid marks.
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