Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Yamaha Unveils Golf Cart Powered By Cow Dung

Posted by samzenpus on from the thirty-miles-per-pound dept.

Jessica Mischner writes "You've seen cars powered by the sun, wind and biofuels — but a vehicle propelled by dung? Yamaha just unveiled the first one at a golf course in Japan. The experimental golf cart doesn't run on cow dung directly — the poo is processed into biofuel which is then converted into methane — but it represents a huge leap forward for green innovations."

10 of 78 comments (clear)

  1. Pointless by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    How often do you see cow dung on a golf course? If they really wanted to make a useful "green" golf cart, they would power it with the most abundant resources present on golf courses: beer farts and impotent rage.

    1. Re:Pointless by rolfwind · · Score: 2, Funny

      How often do you see cow dung on a golf course?

      Duh! That's because it's eaten by the gold carts!

      (If gas keeps going up again, expect a barn raising on the 9th hole soon.)

    2. Re:Pointless by auric_dude · · Score: 2, Funny

      No shit, Sherlock.

  2. You're right by Myria · · Score: 4, Funny

    I call bullshit.

    --
    "Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language." - Visual J++ Product Manager
  3. re: dung car by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but I bet it gets really shitty gas mileage.

  4. Tiger Woods? by daveywest · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can just see the endorsment touting the "sweet smell of victory."

  5. Smart feller ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The guy who invented it was definitely a fart Smeller and so will be those around the cart

  6. Re:WTF? by chromas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh my shit! You fuckin' said "p**p"! I'm tattling!

  7. Re:Sorry dudes... by Culture20 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lucky for you man created Amazon.com for replacing woman in this natural cycle of life. You can subscribe to Fish sticks like their other grocery products and it will automatically charge you and ship fish sticks to your door on a regular basis!

    But then they won't be in the freezer, or cooked in the oven. I'd have to eat them quickly, hunched-over on my front porch before they attracted raccoons. I think Amazon.com has a way to go before replacing the Amazons.

  8. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh my shit! You fuckin' said "p**p"! I'm tattling!

    That reminds me of one of my favorite oldies -- the redneck who told his wife, "Let's put the kids to B-E-D so we can fuck."