Bio-diesel Made from Sewage

tito writes "A New Zealand company has successfully turned sewage into modern-day gold. New Zealand Herald is reporting that a Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic yesterday announced it had produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds. It is believed to be the world's first commercial production of bio-diesel from 'wild' algae outside the laboratory - and the company expects to be producing at the rate of at least one million litres of the fuel each year from Blenheim by April."

But will it smell like

[flafish]

sewage coming out of the tailpipe or french fries?

You've got to be shitting me.

[casings]

Finally we are going to be able to use our waste to ease some form of our lives.

I can already think of a slogon- "Waste makes haste"

One step closer

[acjetnut]

to burrito gas powering cars instead of just stinking them up.

Inventor contributes 1st SewageBio-Diesel Car Seat

[digitaldc]

An inventor, Mr. Simpson from Springfield, has invented a new car seat [google.com]to be used in conjunction with the vehicles that will run on sewage bio-diesel.
Simpson said, "It's just a prototype right now, but it has been my lifelong dream to contribute something truly my own to this bio-movement."

Hooray!

[thelonestranger]

My car already runs LIKE shit, now it can run ON shit as well.

Was there ever a greater incentive...?

[TintinX]

Was there ever a greater incentive to overtake the vehicle in front of you?

Re:Hmmmmmmmmmn,

[bhima]

Covering the entire surface of the United States with shit eating algae sounds like a step in the right direction... can we start in Washington?

Re:one million litres?

[Anonymous Coward]

So....there webpage looks like shit?

Sewage is the new oil?

[amliebsch]

Brown gold! Kiwi tea! Uh, oh, I think I've got a gusher...

Must smell great!!!

[Warlock7]

They say that the bio-diesel made from used cooking oil makes the emission smell like french fries. Sort of makes you wonder what sewage is going to smell like.

Re:Hmmmmmmmmmn,

[sharkey]

shit eating algae ... start in Washington?

Some might say it's already started.

Don't tell me

[MichaelSmith]

You can produce bio-diesel from a vast diversity of lifeforms as long as they contain lipids

Humans contain lipids.

Re:Nothing new

[TripMaster Monkey]

You can produce bio-diesel from a vast diversity of lifeforms as long as they contain lipids.

"Soylent diesel is made from PEOPLE! It's PEOPLE!!!!!!"

Make your own Bio Fuel

[tunmire]

I can see the farmers smiling and laughing at what we have all known for years. They now have proof that the more beans you eat the more bio fuel you can produce. So, quit lighting your farts and put them to good use.

The Obvious

[Analogy Man]

This has the be the shittyest idea I have ever heard!

Re:Nothing new

[Ohreally_factor]

Then fill up the tank with premium, because I want to associate with only quality people.

Re:You've got to be shitting me.

[myth24601]

Really adds a new dimension to the term "tail pipe emissions."

This won't do us any good

[mwvdlee]

So... instead of an oil shortage, we'll seen have a waste shortage?

Re:Biodiesel Yield Per Land Area

[jackbird]

Well, filling a 15 gallon tank on two cars weekly for a year = 1560 gallons. So at 5000 gallons per acre per year, if all the open space of a large half-acre suburban lot were devoted to your personal sewage farm, you could just squeak by. Plus you'd save on home security bills, what with the giant moat of fecal slime surrounding your house. And you'd reduce tension with the neighbors, because you'd welcome your neighbor's dog crapping in your yard.

Re:This won't do us any good

[tbone1]

So... instead of an oil shortage, we'll seen have a waste shortage?

In this world? With our media and our politicians? Hollywood alone could fuel a small galaxy.

Solving the Obesity and Energy Crises

[Ranger]

You can produce bio-diesel from a vast diversity of lifeforms as long as they contain lipids

Humans contain lipids.

So they'll start putting liposuction centers next to a biodiesel refinery?

This could solve the obesity crisis and energy crisis at the same time! Instead of driving around on your fat ass, you'll be driving around on your ass fat! So how much of this untapped resource is there? Let's see:

• How many obese people are there in America?
• What is the average weight of extra fat that people have?
• Multipy the two numbers together we get the number of pounds of fat.
• How many pounds of fat can we safely extract via liposuction per person per year?
• Then we get the number of convertable pounds of fat per year.
• How many pounds of fat does it take to produce one gallon of biodiesel?
• Multiply that gallons per pound with the number of pounds available and we get the number of gallons of lipodiesel per year.

Should Middle East cut off the tap, it will become the patriotic duty of every overweight person to donate their fat for biodiesel production. We'll no longer have an obesity crisis. We'll have a Strategic Lipid Reserve.