News Direct's video: Human sewage rotting food to power new trains

For story suggestions or custom animation requests, contact tips@nextanimation.com.tw. Visit http://archive.nextanimationstudio.com to view News Direct's complete archive of 3D news animations. RESTRICTIONS: Broadcast: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Digital: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Trains powered by human sewage and discarded food will be introduced to Britain's railway for the first time under plans to phase out dirty diesel engines. RUNDOWN SHOWS: 1. Show human using toilet, flushing, material moving through pipe system to sewage plant 2. Show dumping of old food in food shredder, moving down pipe to sewage plant 3. Food and sewage enters fermentation tanks, sludge ferments, gas rises 4. Gas enters pipes above sludge, passes through separation pipes to produce methane 5. Methane pumped into truck, transported to train, pumped into train, fuels engines 6. Engines produce electricity that powers wheels and charges batteries, train accelerates VOICEOVER (in English): The Times newspaper reports that trains powered by human sewage and discarded food will be introduced to Britain's railway for the first time under plans to phase out dirty diesel engines. A full-size "BioUltra" train capable of carrying 120 passengers is being developed with government funding. The lightweight, low-cost train will be fuelled by biomethane. Biomethane is a renewable gas made from organic waste. Britain currently has a number of sewage plants fitted with fermentation tanks. These fermentation tanks are filled with a combination of human sewage sludge, rotting food waste and other organic waste to create a potent mixture that is digested by bacteria in a process that creates methane gas. The gas then rises to the top of the pungent mixture, where it is siphoned off to mechanisms that separates the methane from other gases. The new, lightweight trains will burn the gas in special engines that will convert it into electrical power, which will charge the train's batteries and drive its motors. The rail cars are expected to reach speeds of up to 80 kilometers per hour. SOURCES: The Times, The Independent, The Nation https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/human-waste-bioultra-train-will-take-the-strain-gxw9wjfnd https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/bioultra-train-human-waste-biomethane-b1780743.html https://nation.com.pk/03-Jan-2021/trains-powered-by-human-waste-to-be-introduced-in-britain *** ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­---------------- Next Animation Studio’s News Direct service provides daily, high-quality, informative 3D news animations that fill in for missing footage and help viewers understand breaking news stories or in-depth features on science, technology, and health. Sign up for a free trial of News Direct's news animations at http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com/trial/ To subscribe to News Direct or for more info, please visit: http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com