A new car from Toyota runs on a very renewable resource: human waste.
Yes, you read that right: The Toyota Mirai is powered by hydrogen fuel, which can be made from poop.The process, as Quartz reports, is surprisingly simple.Toyota is using a wastewater processing plant in Fukuoka, Japan, to separate sewage into liquids and solids, and the solid waste is mixed with microorganisms that break it down, creating biogas.
Toyota using human waste based fuel to drive its new electric car — RT Viral
Toyota has gone to the toilet, literally, scooping up human poop to create renewable hydrogen fuel to power its new electric car.The use of human waste is expected to solve the motor giant's 'chicken or the egg' problem, as described by Yoshikazu Tanaka, chief engineer of the Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell car,the Mirai.Toyota says its bid to help the global warming crisis has not proven successful as nobody wants to buy a hydrogen car when there are no hydrogen fuel stations and no one wants to build a hydrogen fuel station when there are no hydrogen cars.
A new car from Toyota runs on a very renewable resource: human waste.
Yes, you read that right: The Toyota Mirai is powered by hydrogen fuel, which can be made from poop.The process, as Quartz reports, is surprisingly simple.Toyota is using a wastewater processing plant in Fukuoka, Japan, to separate sewage into liquids and solids, and the solid waste is mixed with microorganisms that break it down, creating biogas.