"Toilet bike" runs on very alternative fuel
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We are definitely not in Kansas anymore.
Japanese plumbing products giant Toto has built a three-wheel motorcycle that runs on human waste and features a high-tech toilet for a seat. But it’s not as gross as it sounds.
The Toilet Bike Neo is powered by a 250 cc motorcycle engine that’s been converted to run on biogas – methane commercially produced from household wastewater, animal feces and other forms of decaying organic matter - not directly by the low-flow commode that the rider sits on.
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Two compressed gas canisters containing the fuel are stacked in the back below an oversized roll of toilet paper and above a set of six horns that play “The Song of the Toto toilet.”
We can only imagine what that sounds like.
A miniature version of the toilet nestled between the handlebars communicates with the rider and “speaks when it feels like it,” according to Toto.
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We don’t even want to imagine what that sounds like.
The unique vehicle was used on a 1000 km tour of Japan to promote the company’s efforts to reduce the CO2 emissions of its products, if not its customers.