[lasagnaphil]

Holy shit... By the way, there's a weird-ass Korean adult animation about a dystopian world that has (tried to) solve their energy crisis by burning human feces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachi_%26_Ssipak

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972542/

Maybe those researchers have been inspired from that movie. Ah, how life imitates art...

The plot (highly NSFW by the way):

"Somewhere in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have somehow engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars" to citizens, which in turn also makes them constipated. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading black market Juicybars. Through a chain of events involving their porn-director acquaintance Jimmy the Freak, they meet a porn star named Beautiful, who gets a pink ring inside her butt which makes her defecations rewarded by exceptional quantities of Juicybars. For that reason, Beautiful is also wanted by the violent blue mutants known as the Diaper Gang (led by the Diaper King), the police (most notably the cyborg police officer Geko), and others."

[Lio]

Mad Max III also described a post apocalyptic world powered by methane made from pig shit.

So it seems like a commonish theme.

[lasagnaphil]

Although the comment was written as a half-joke, it's an incredibly obtuse and specific South Korean reference that others might not know, and I thought it would be fun to post about it.

[Lio]

Yep definitely. I appreciated it and didn’t know it previously. So cheers.