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GenEco: Car is flushed with power
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pangea on 05/08/2010 16:36:00
 
The Bio-Bug runs on methane gas generated during the sewage treatment  process.
Waste flushed down the toilets of just 70 homes in  Bristol is enough to power
the Bio-Bug for a year, based on an annual  mileage of 10,000 miles.
With support from the South West Regional  Development Agency, GENeco, a Wessex
Water-owned company, imported  specialist equipment to treat gas generated at
Bristol sewage treatment  works in Avonmouth to power the VW Beetle in a way
that doesn’t affect  its performance.
Mohammed Saddiq, GENeco’s general manager, said  he was confident that methane
from sewage sludge could be used as an  alternative energy source and was an
innovative way of powering company  vehicles.
He said: “Our site at Avonmouth has been producing  biogas for many years
which we use to generate electricity to power the  site and export to the
National Grid.
“With the surplus gas we had  available we wanted to put it to good use in a
sustainable and  efficient way.
“We decided to power a vehicle on the gas offering a  sustainable alternative
to using fossil fuels which we so heavily rely  on in the UK.
“If you were to drive the car you wouldn’t know it  was powered by biogas as
it performs just like any conventional car. It  is probably the most sustainable
car around.”
For more on this article: http://www.geneco.uk.com/about/index.aspx?id=6028
Source: GenEco