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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."

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  1. It is still a carbon based fuel by crazybit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    which means it will generate CO2. Maybe less than gasoline, but on the other side it is VERY explosive and has to be stored in high pressure tanks.

    What happened with wind/solar/hidrogen based technologies? shouldn't we be researching on them?

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    1. Re:It is still a carbon based fuel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      You're right and wrong. The problem with burning oil is that you are releasing sequestered CO2 from within the earth. Burning methane from cow waste releases CO2 that was sequestered from the atmosphere by the plant then the cow then released by burning. So it's a 0 sum transfer.

      CO2 in oil was in the atmosphere a very long time ago while the CO2 from dung was in the atmosphere days ago.