Yamaha Unveils Golf Cart Powered By Cow Dung

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."

Comments

Pointless

[eln]

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.

Re:Pointless

[rolfwind]

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.)

Re:Pointless

[auric_dude]

No shit, Sherlock.

Sorry dudes...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

The fact that methane can be made from cow dung(among a large number of other things) doesn't mean that slapping a methane engine or fuel cell on a vehicle amounts to producing a "vehicle powered by cow dung".

By that elastic standard, any rechargable battery-powered vehicle is actually a "coal/oil/nuclear fission/nuclear fusion(seamless upgrade in-the-field at some future date)/wind/hydro/solar flex fuel vehicle". Nonsense, twaddle, and utter rot.

Re:Sorry dudes...

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

No Kidding.

I'm going to power my bike tomorrow with fish sticks, a renewable resource conveniently located in my freezer. The natural cycle of womanhood seems to automatically withdraw funds from our checking account and deposit fresh fish sticks in the freezer on a weekly schedule. Like the tides, or the changing of seasons, the reasons for this cycle are not readily explainable to us mere men, we can only gaze upon the glory of Mother nature and wonder at her boundless bounty.

Re:Sorry dudes...

[Culture20]

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.

Just like GM & Ford

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell, that's nothing.

GM, Ford and Chrysler are already selling vehicles powered by organic waste. Granted, the material has been highly compressed and heated through geologic forces over millions of years until it becomes a black goo which is then refined into a flammable liquid.... but you can still call it organic waste, correct?

You're right

[Myria]

I call bullshit.

re: dung car

[Anonymous Coward]

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

It is still a carbon based fuel

[crazybit]

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?

WTF?

[MrEricSir]

Since when has "poop" been a swear word that needs to be censored?

Re:WTF?

[chromas]

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

Tiger Woods?

[daveywest]

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