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Must See! This Race Car Is Powered by Human Waste
Amaze Lab
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2/4/2025
When you hear the word renewables, your mind likely conjures images of solar panels and wind farms. However, researchers are trying to change the game with this: the vehicle they have named Waste2Race.
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When you hear the word renewables, your mind likely conjures images of solar panels and
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wind farms.
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However, researchers are trying to change the game with this.
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The vehicle they have named Waste to Race, a car powered entirely by hydrogen derived
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from sewage.
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This is Dr. James Meredith, Chief Engineer for Sustainable Materials at the University
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of Warwick to explain how it works.
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We have a microbial electrolysis cell, which is actually used for cleaning waste water.
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When the sewage goes through this process, microbes grown on a carbon fiber substrate
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will eat the sewage and produce hydrogen during that process.
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Unfortunately, he goes on to say that the car itself does not have an on-board electrolysis
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system.
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Rather, that is done elsewhere.
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And then the hydrogen is compressed before the car's tank is filled.
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Still, hydrogen is a clean energy source, one many researchers say we need to be looking
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into to power humanity's future.
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More specifically, this project aims to change the way we think about motorsports, with Reuters
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reporting that Toyota, BMW and other racing teams are already considering hydrogen fuel
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for their next generation of race cars.
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Generally speaking, the whole purpose is to try and demonstrate that actually you can
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do motorsports in a sensible, sustainable fashion using some of these sort of waste
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materials that we can still prove they've got high performance left in them.
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