ALL:
Again I cannot post on the "Trains Digest" due some error that befuddles me.
So, "Trains" knows its poop regarding the British company that wants to fuel locomotives with do do. And that my friends is the best poop I have tell you.
Ed Burns
NP Eddie ALL: Again I cannot post on the "Trains Digest" due some error that befuddles me. So, "Trains" knows its poop regarding the British company that wants to fuel locomotives with do do. And that my friends is the best poop I have tell you. Ed Burns
OK, ED:
Here is a C&P from the TRAINS Digest of this date: FTA:"...A British firm has received a government grant to develop lightweight trains powered by human waste. The Independent reports that Ultra Light Rail Partners has received a £60,000 grant ($81,700) a development of the BioUltra, which would use biomethane — derived from sewage sludge, crop resident, and animal manure, among other sources — to develop railcars capable of carrying 120 passengers. Work on a prototype vehicle began in July.."
Do not know what the folks in the UK call their commuter trains(?) I do know arounf Chicago area they are some times known as 'SCOOTS' .
Of course, the addition of a fuel knwn as Biomethane would add a whole new diamension for that experience....
Might a train ride be referred to as "...a poo,poopy do?.." Those Brits really know their 'stuff'
This is the follow up from STEAM ultra, a just-under-£350K grant at midyear. Technically research into the larger 'BioUltra' car started in November, but perhaps Trains Newswire was as late with this poop as so much else crappy they produce...
This is a REALLY light class of rail vehicle... as light as a bus and deriving its 'biomethane' (plus KERS) power train from bus precedent.
Of course, as I noted over in the hydrogen threads it is a little specious to call methane power 'zero carbon' unless it reforms and then sequesters the carbon... which is yet to be established. They have now moved to claim 'net negative' because they are using sources that might otherwise release that potent greenhouse gas, cowlike, into the atmosphere unregulated... makes the CO2 look almost 'green' by comparison.
I just couldn't stop thinking of Sean McMullen's galley trains... those are not much of a lighter transport choice than this.
I mentioned in another thread - our regional landfill captures the methane and uses it to power gensets. They sell the power to the utility.
There were plans to use the waste heat from the gensets to air condition greenhouses. That hasn't happened here yet, but it is done elsewhere.
I know of another landfill that sells the methane to local users.
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As long as they don't become known as pooters
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