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    The Poop Mobile

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    Japan toilet maker unveils 'poop-powered' motorcycle that can travel as far as 180 miles on a tank filled with animal waste
    Billed as the world's first waste-powered vehicle, the three-wheeler has a toilet in place of a regular seat and huge paper roll at the back.





    Japan's best-known toilet maker on Wednesday unveiled a "poop-powered" motorcycle that can travel as far as 180 miles on a tank filled with animal waste.

    Billed as the world's first waste-powered vehicle, the three-wheeler has a toilet in place of a regular seat and huge paper roll at the back.

    But as a young female model climbed aboard for a test drive Wednesday, toilet giant TOTO was quick to point out that she would not supply the "gas".

    "The biogas it uses as fuel is not made from human waste. It's made from livestock waste and sewage," Kenji Fujita, a company spokesman, told reporters in a Tokyo suburb.

    "We hope to raise awareness among customers about our green campaign through development of environmentally-friendly products such as water-saving showerheads and water-saving toilets," Fujita added.

    The company -- which makes toilets equipped with an array of features including heated seats, water jets with pressure and temperature controls, and ambient background music -- has no plans to commercialise the motorcycle.

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    Seems like a neat idea. Think of a manure-powered tractor on a farm. That'd be ballin. Or a water treatment plant that's powered by the very sewage it's filtering and treating. A ship that utilizes sewage-power to supplement its normal fuel source.

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    Good idea for a GREEN business. Put a toilet in the back seat of a van! You got a real Mobile POOP mobile...

    Charge folks a few bucks to take a squat.... plus their feces is energy for your van... self sustainable.

    Hot damn im good!

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    The oil mafia wont stand for this.

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    I was drawn to this thread like a fly to cow poop.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Can you imagine the exaust coming out of a "poop vehicle"?

    You'd have to wear a gas mask just to leave the house.
    FJB

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    I'd love to know what that old MC engine is that they based it on.

    Even though it's Japan I'd swear that was old Norton or BSA single.

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