Have you considered fueling your car with clean burning "farts".. aka methane?

[lightbulb27]

For those that choose not to read the articles:
Cliff Notes: Humans outlet methane gas, methane gas is damaging environment and #2 cause of climate change. We could capture these gasses and burn it for fuel.

Wholly crap! It looks like you can... if you want to. How badly do you want to save the planet and reduce fuel costs?

https://jalopnik.com/can-you-run-a-car-on-what-comes-out-of-your-butt-1498458270

You just need to save the gas from natural outgasing.. umm farts... or create a bioreactor and collect the gas. Try not to blow up your neighbors because it is flammable! I'm sure you can do the math, but your farting just might save Europe.. and that's not a pile of dung, but real science!

Yes we can and we should!

Not to mention, you are causing global warming pressures... not in the least... by farting, from your human "bio reactor".. and all the other activities you do. It's time to take action, capture those gases... and put them to good use to fuel our economy.

!https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/methane

Don't even think about giving me any crap about this post or cancelling me, that's some B. S.! This is science FACT! Run your own experiments and find out the power you have always had.. down there. Cmon...

Yes, power the future with farts... I will

umm... open to the idea... it if isn't too invasive or stinky

only if Elon Musk invents it

I'm... just not "there" yet...

[HighlyVolatile]

I'm just not there yet when it comes to extracting fuel from our farts. :-D

I'm probably biased being from Japan but I think it would be so helpful to start designing the infrastructure more around people who don't own cars with great public transportation, local grocery stores within walking distance in every neighborhood, etc.

Besides cutting down on fuel consumption, there are a lot of benefits to that including health. I think one of the keys to Japanese typically being fairly lean and active and healthy is that even in the most rural parts of Japan, there are typically one or more neighborhood grocery stores within walking distance. So that tends to cause Japanese to shop for fresh groceries on a daily basis favoring more whole and fresh foods instead of preserved and frozen foods. I think once people have to drive to buy groceries, there's a stronger temptation to buy an entire week's worth of groceries and favor more preserved and processed foods.

It also helps cut down on DUIs. If people want to go out drinking in a night, there's no need for a designated driver. They can just use the train or bus or take a taxi to and back so easily and cheaply.

Also encourages walking and cycling daily. Japanese tend to average around 1-2 hours of walking and cycling a day to commute to/from work and run their daily errands. There's no need typically for Japanese to try to force themselves to walk 10k steps a day in a monotonous and routine way since they'll get that much and then some just to get around.

So I really think it'd help to design things in a way such that cars are an optional luxury, not a practical requirement just to get around and work as in many parts of the US.

[lightbulb27]

Excellent points. Local economy much better and that’s what high fuel costs would encourage. So many Americans are in terrible health because of our “drive” centric view. In my home town we’d drive.5 mi to get food… it’s ridiculous and lazy which is bad for us. Better cycling and walking opportunities are good. A lot of our society structured around the freedom the car brings so it’s a tough sell here outside the big cities

[HighlyVolatile]

Cheers! It seems like such a tough sell to me but maybe more practical than expecting everyone to drive electric cars by some nearby year... or not. I don't really know! I just think there are a lot of benefits. :-D

I messed up my no-alcohol challenge by the way on the 9th day. :-( I got through the 8-day challenge originally proposed and then drank some beers on the 9th (bleeding into April 10th here). I gotta work harder!

[lightbulb27]

Yea a fart powered world is a long ways off as is electric. Electric is not so viable. You’ve made ton of progress. Steps… and often orogrsss is two forward and one back. From it you know yourself better and make choices you prefer

[Anonymous]

I would probably say no. Methane is 25 times worse than carbon dioxide as far as greenhouse gases go. While it's generally a fairly clean burning fossil fuel. It's very bad unturned. If it became in greater demand do to use in cars then that'd increase the potential for leakage.

[convo_king89]

They if u don’t burn it it’s a powerful green house gas. So when they say the methane from ur fart is killing me.. technically it is.

[lightbulb27]

That make a good meme. This should be taught in chemistry class…

[exitseven]

I have been lighting my own farts for years. They are definitely high octane.

[FunkyMonkee]

If we could, I could make a SHITLOAD of money!!

[MCheetah]

No thanks.