Sick of Norwegians walking around acting like their poo smells like roses? Well it does. And if that’s not bad enough, it’s also going to power their city buses.
Norway’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2050 can’t always be described as green. Sometimes it a seems little more, well, brown. In a move that is one part disgusting and one part awesome, the city of Oslo is converting municipal buses to run on methane harvested off human waste from their sewage treatment plants.
The switch is expected to save 44 tons of CO2 emissions per bus per year. It will also save 17,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year from the city’s two sewage treatment plants.
The city will turn yesterdays lutefisk into tomorrow’s bus fuel (called biomethane) through a process called anaerobic digestion that uses microorganisms to break down the human waste.
“Oslo aims to be one of the most environmentally sustainable capitals in the world,” project manager Ole Jakob Johansen told the Guardian. “Using biomethane makes sense. Not only would the biomethane otherwise be wasted, but the reduction in emissions per bus will go a long way to achieving our carbon-neutral target.”
Portland is well known throughout the world as the Rose City, but come September, when 200 Oslo buses are converted to run off Norwegian poo, Oslo may just take our title away.
[Photo Via: Bordas]
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Now that’s getting your s*** together!!