I think I'd heard of these not too long ago on a radio talk show. There was a joke (I think it was Bob and Tom) having something to do with MotoPooter. While I think it's interesting as an idea, I think driving behind one would be dreadful. Driving behind a school bus or other diesel guzzlers is bad enough, I couldn't imagine being behind a poo-burner.

@capguncowboy: lol...yeah, I really have no desire to know what the guy driving in front of my had for breakfast either.

I didn't hear the details, but it's actually going to tour around Japan somewhere heh - that's gonna be interesting.

for anyone that's interested

Powering things by poop is no new breakthrough. Politicians have been fueling their careers with bullsh*t for years and years. Now, we've just been able to fuel engines rather than political careers.

@jsimsace: If you don't go, you don't go.

I heard it gets crappy mileage.

I find it funny that this article is featured on treehugger.com. Isn't methane worse than C02?

@underinsomnia: When I was first looking at this post, I thought you asked,"WHO would ride this? Assless chaps?" It is/was/could-have-been a great play on words (in my mind only, I guess).

"I'm sure you will all be shocked to learn: This is a Japanese born product."

Sarcastic irony?

@vladistov: ...Wow.

@drchops: Shall I attribute the 'pwning' to your insightful response, to your discrete negative rating, or to the positive ratings of your own comment made by your awe-inspired followers?

With such charisma that you be revered over uttering a single word, you might well start a religion. Or run for U.S. President.

@wesleyvb: Your accusations are fantasy. I'm saying that the scooter is inefficient and that its only appeal is scatological.

I never said we ought do nothing about increasing population, I said that finding ways to circumvent our having reached our environment's capacity only perpetuates the problem. Finding new ways to cram more people onto the planet is not a solution. To better explain, I propose the following thought experiment for your tiny brain:

Imagine there is only one vehicle on the world, and that its pollution output is a unit of 100. Now imagine a 'green' vehicle that outputs a unit of pollution of only 1. But now imagine there are 1000 of those vehicles. What do we have? We have a 'gas-guzzler' causing one-tenth the pollution of the 'green' vehicle. Why? Because it's a population problem.

Anyway, composting feces or using it in a power-plant makes sense. Putting it in a vehicle is only a scatological obscenity.

Twisted logic? You've none of any kind.

@vladistov: Your logic is still flawed. For your little experiment, in both cases we will have 1000 vehicles being used(for the sake of keeping variables constant). 1,000 vehicles producing 100 units of pollution will have a total of 100,000 units of pollution. 1,000 vehicles producing 1 unit of pollution will have a total of 1,000 units of pollution. Now tell me, which is less, 100,000 or 1,000? We can use the "green" vehicle for 100 times longer than the "gas-guzzler". I agree, the population is a problem but people are always going to consume resources so it would be in our best interest to uses these resources as efficiently as possible, without regard to population size.

Sure, I would never buy this poop-powered car but I applaud the inventors for taking a step in the right direction.