Britain’s Poo-Powered Bus Hits a Land Speed Record

The UK ’s crap - powered bus is formally one fast Word - of - a - bitch . As reported Friday byArs Technica , the bus lately hit a top f number of 76.8 miles per hour at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire — a record for a regular service bus .

“ It was an impressive ken as it swept by on the track , ” chief engineer John Bickerton told the BBC . “ It sounded like a Vulcan bomber . ”

The “ Bus Hound ” ( name inspired by theBritish Bloodhound supersonic car ) go on biomethane farm by the anaerobiotic digestion of moo-cow poo in a bioreactor . The methane is compressed , molten and stored in a series of tanks fixed to the inside of the bus ’s cap . course , the coach is paint black and white to look like a Friesian moo-cow .

Now , those of us who have any familiarity with the speeding motion picture have clear seen faster omnibus . Even outside the kingdom of XC legal action - flicks , to be recognized as a Guinness World Record , the bus would have to touch velocity of above 150 mi per hour , consort to the BBC . But liken to its oil - eating twin , which typically max out around 56 international nautical mile per hour , the poo - jalopy is n’t looking too ratty . Despite sounding like the end of days .

The next step , of course , will be to step on it the Bus Hound against the UK’shuman poop - power bus , and learn once and for all whose crap pack more biff .

[ Ars Technica ]

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