Man Harvests Methane for to Fuel DIY Swamp Gas Bicycle

If you think you’re ready to be a proper sidekick to Furiosa on the Fury Road in some post-apoalyptic waterless wasteland, you may well be, but you’ve got some competition. Engineering student Gijs Schalkx has made whathe’s calling his Sloot Motor, a motorbike that runs on methane he harvests from roadside bogs. He alwo spots a truly excellent duster. Here’s more from MOTHERBOARD:

The Sloot Motor uses a converted Honda GX160 motorcycle engine Schalkx converted himself. According to his website, Schalkx drilled a hole into the airbox of the engine where it receives the methane. Then he hooks a balloon (he uses a condom in a demonstration) to the hole which fuels the engine. The engine still starts with gas, but once it’s going it can use the collected methane to keep going. He got the idea while reading about a fisherman who used methane collected while out fishing to fry eggs, according to his website.

Collecting the naturally-occurring methane is a labor of love which requires a special device Schalkx designed which calls a plompstation. “A plompstation consists of a collecting apparatus which is anchored to the water, only reachable by those who bring their waders,” he said on his website. “Next to that there is a pressure pump locked on site for transferring the fuel to your fuel container.”

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