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Schalkx harvests the methane for his bike from bogs around the Netherlands. It takes him eight hours to fill up the balloon and the fuel only lasts about 20 kilometers, about 12 miles. The labor is intense. “It is a bit dirty and it’s also always the question, ‘What am I gonna poke in the bottom?’ Is there like a dead rat coming up or whatever? You never know,” Schalkx said as he churned the bottom of a swamp to harvest his methane.
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