Normally when you're driving and you see a cat in the middle of the road... most people would slow down to allow the cat to get out of the way. Not anymore!
Cat Fueled Car
Sick... just sick.
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Normally when you're driving and you see a cat in the middle of the road... most people would slow down to allow the cat to get out of the way. Not anymore!
Cat Fueled Car
Sick... just sick.
I've got 2 cats. They're big'uns too. Hmmm the lass wouldn't be too please to see her little Tootsie's tail sticking out my fuel cap.
I wonder if it works on other road kill. I see dead deer every other day, might get a tank out of one of those.
I really like cats, so I could never bring myself to using cats at fuel.
I have two at my house and one at my SO's house.
I have two dogs too... but I prefer cats to dogs. They are so much easier to take care of.
Want to leave for the weekend? No problem. Refresh the water, food and litter box and you're good.
With dogs, you have to bribe the neighbors to come over several times a day to let them out and take them on walks... or put them in a shelter.
But I do wonder WHY cats vs some other animal. I was trying to search for more relating to this but I don't read/speak german. Maybe some of german reading/speaking member can shed some light on this? Though... I doubt that this guy will divulge TOO much info on it. Maybe they just want the animal fats? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
Unfortunately, this guy has chosen a pre-existing term as the marketing name for his fuel. The "biodiesel" defined in the wiki link above is the typical definition for the generic term. Most biodiesel I know of is created from soybeans.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09...s_fuel_diesel/Quote:
However, Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf says he doesn't use cats after all, rather spoiling things for punsters hoping to make jokes about putting a tiger in your tank. Any old biomatter will do: old tyres, paper, textiles, plastics weeds and so on.
In the Netherlands they make Biodiesel from rapeseed oil..Quote:
There are experiments on the way for general use as we speak..
That's messed up.Remind me never to bring my pet cat to germany.
Hmmm... This has promise... There are quite a few cats around my house, and gas is like $3 a gallon right now.
According to Reuters the inventor never mentioned that it would run on dead cats. Apparantly someone wanted to juice up the story.
mmmmmmmm hhmmmm, just listen to that engine purr... :)
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inventor never mentioned that it would run on dead cats
Well... dead or alive, I don't see any reason you can't turn a cat into biodiesel. Even if the inventor didn't specifically mention it. And I see several reasons why this is a good use for cats. I won't get into the reasons... I don't need to get banned again.
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to just "adopt" a tank of gas from the SPCA or something?
[Devil's Advocate POV]:Hrmm.. we could take it further. Instead of burial sites or standard cremation, bodies could be used for biomass reactors to provide electricity to cities. That means more land could be reclaimed for forests (and cleaner air) and bodies wouldn't just be rotting in the ground but rather returned in a compostable format (ash is often used to help create rich compost material).Quote:
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to just "adopt" a tank of gas from the SPCA or something?
That is sick, that chap had better hope he never bumps in to me.........
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Its been a long while since we've gotten a pet from there... but don't you still have to pay fees to "adopt" an animal?Quote:
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to just "adopt" a tank of gas from the SPCA or something?
If it's anything like here in Toronto, the fees are for microchipping, initial vaccinations and spaying. Sometimes they have "sales" when they have too many of a specific animal type (Toronto recently had a $25 cat sale).Quote:
but don't you still have to pay fees to "adopt" an animal?
Yes, but this could revolutionize the whole process . . . They charge to adopt to make money to take care of and put down all the other cats. I imagine a self-powered cat (exhaust) gas chamber. Get an old clunker, remove the catalytic converter, pull one of the plug wires to make sure she smokes real good, connect by hose to a large box of cats. Cats power the car, excess are sold off as cheap fuel. Free adoption, no more waste of excess cats . . .Quote:
but don't you still have to pay fees to "adopt" an animal?
/me looks up patent office . . .
I agree with MsM,,,, it would be really great to take advnatage of the dead cats, but the point is, if they approved that this is really possible and applicable, I think human being will start to kill cats for this purpose, this what should arise attention and anxiouness.
im sure its not as simple as grinding a cat up and sticking it in the tank. There is surely a complicated process to making cats into fuel. Besides the way we burn fuel, we'll run out of cats first. Unless we start breeding them.... **shudders**
There goes Bob Barker's "have your pet spayed or neutered" campaign!Quote:
Originally posted here by Kthln01
im sure its not as simple as grinding a cat up and sticking it in the tank. There is surely a complicated process to making cats into fuel. Besides the way we burn fuel, we'll run out of cats first. Unless we start breeding them.... **shudders**
I've been on holiday to Florida. I saw some huge mounds of fuel waddling around the parks.
These guys can't be much longer for this earth and a couple of them would keep a power station smoking for a week.
Saves on cats too.
Howabout we use convicts? They could finally be useful members of society...
Or maybe even homeless bums.... They could finally be useful members of society... instead of trolls.Quote:
Originally posted here by d0pp
Howabout we use convicts? They could finally be useful members of society...
The story comes from Bild... Bild runs stories on women getting pregnant from three-headed ants. The End.
Hi Neg,
Hummmmmmm...' pregnant from three-headed ants '...that would explain a few things...i once knew a woman...well...enough said :D
Eg ;)
OH!...and convicts wouldn't work...too much stress on the engine...but...abusive priests would run well on guilt alone :D
Dont be so fast to waste convicts.
Convicts make much better cosmetics than they do fuel.
Yikes !! :eek:
Puts a whole new spin on that "Not Tested On Animals" label with the cute little bunny . . .Quote:
"In China it is considered very normal and I was very shocked that western countries can make such a big fuss about this," he said. Speaking from his office in northern China, he added: "The government has put some pressure on all the medical facilities to keep this type of work in low profile."
The agent said his company exported to the west via Hong Kong."We are still in the early days of selling these products, and clients from abroad are quite surprised that China can manufacture the same human collagen for less than 5% of what it costs in the west." Skin from prisoners used to be even less expensive, he said. "Nowadays there is a certain fee that has to be paid to the court."
Double Yikes!!Considering how many people are executed in China, it's no wonder that they can produce this stuff so cheaply.Quote:
The agent said his company exported to the west via Hong Kong."We are still in the early days of selling these products, and clients from abroad are quite surprised that China can manufacture the same human collagen for less than 5% of what it costs in the west." Skin from prisoners used to be even less expensive, he said. "Nowadays there is a certain fee that has to be paid to the court."
Then again, this is the Chinese culture. Every person belongs to the State, even after they have died. And in China they don't like to waste useful resources.
I also would not be suprised if China is using organs from executed prisoners for all kinds of transplantation purposes and they might even deliberately delay execution until a good patient can be found for the imprisoned donor. Which is why they just execute them by shooting them in the head or neck. Almost immediately lethal yet no important get harmed this way.
Oh. look! They are already doing that too!Quote:
One transplant centre was believed to be adjacent to an execution ground.
But consider this... This world never has enough organs available for transplantations anyway. Many people don't want their organs being re-used by someone else after they died and thus many people who are in need for some organ wait in misery until finally someone dies. The Chinese policy just provides a lot more spare parts to be used for this purpose.
Does it really matter to what happens with your body after you've died? Before the stone age, anyone who would die would just be food for any lucky, hungry predator. A body would be reduced to just bones within a week and to dust within a few years. Nowadays we just bury the dead and let them rot away for years, feeding just the worms.
We are already using the remains of dinosaurs as fuel for our cars. I can imagine that we would use the bodies of any dead animal or plant to generate fuel once we've run out of those prehistoric oil reserves. (Which is what? 50 years from now?) Right now, the whole idea of recycling the human body is really Yikes now. But within half a century or so it might be required to keep our world running as it is running now.
New Chinese food export:
Soylent green.
Yum yum.
There's all kinds of other resources we could utilize if we ever ran out of oil...some are feasible and some aren't...
I remember 25 years ago in school being taught that nuclear waste can be recycled...that ( don't remember the exact figure ) X-number of grams could light New York City for a week...but, at the time it wasn't feasible because it was not profitable...it was a break even situation...where it would cost you as much to recycle it as generate revenue...so...we buried it.
Alternative fuels are abundant...it's just in many cases not as profitable.
You can run a car on pig manure...back about 15 years ago or so a guy in Saskatewan ran all his vehicles on manure for about 35 cents a litre until the RCMP shut him down for operating an illegal still.
Eg ;)
P.S. Aspman...I remember watching that movie with Charlton Heston when it first came out.
Soylent green is people......
I did like that film and most other 70's cheesy sci fi.
You'r spot on Eg, Lots of other fuels that can be tapped if the market is ready for them. I know some people run their diesel cars on vegetable oil from chip shops.
They have to register the fuel they make from it and pay duty on it to the Crown but I think it works out at about 20p a litre if they get the oil for free.
In Brasil I think they run cars on alcohol fermented from sugar cane.
I would guess that these biofuels will be the intermediate step before H2 comes on line proper.
H2 is no use until some sort of renewable energy can be used to crack water.
PS. Fuel costs dropped 4p a litre today at some of the supermarkets.