Cat powered car...

[d0pp]

Howabout we use convicts? They could finally be useful members of society...

[CXGJarrod]

Originally posted here by d0pp
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.

[Negative]

The story comes from Bild... Bild runs stories on women getting pregnant from three-headed ants. The End.

[Egaladeist]

Hi Neg,

Hummmmmmm...' pregnant from three-headed ants '...that would explain a few things...i once knew a woman...well...enough said

Eg

OH!...and convicts wouldn't work...too much stress on the engine...but...abusive priests would run well on guilt alone

[Tedob1]

Dont be so fast to waste convicts.

Convicts make much better cosmetics than they do fuel.

[hesperus]

Yikes !!

"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."

Puts a whole new spin on that "Not Tested On Animals" label with the cute little bunny . . .

[Katja]

Double Yikes!!

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."

Considering how many people are executed in China, it's no wonder that they can produce this stuff so cheaply.
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.

One transplant centre was believed to be adjacent to an execution ground.

Oh. look! They are already doing that too!

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.

[Aspman]

New Chinese food export:

Soylent green.

Yum yum.

[Egaladeist]

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.

[Aspman]

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.