Toilet Bike Neo converts the poop - which can come straight from the driver sitting on a toilet-style seat - into a biogas that propels the vehicle. It's a part of the company's TOTO Green Challenge, whose goal is to cut CO2 emissions in bathrooms in half by 2007.
That's what the article said - four years ago. Proof-reading at its finest.
A sleeker faster than the speed of time carbon footprint isn't the bike's only virtue. It can play music, and harness residual light imagery to write messages in the air as it passes by, according to a TreeHugger.com report. The toilet also talks, which is an existing function on TOTO products
I'm thinking about using the 'facility' on the road, which would be convenient, but wonder where the toilet paper dispenser is located. And how do I ...clean up. Maybe there's a warm-water bidet function? Can used toilet paper be converted into fuel? Or am I goning to have to shovel the fuel into the bike? And where is the elephant poop-catching pic? |