Inventor turns dead cats into diesel (Here kitty, kitty)

[Ernesto]

"He said the resulting "high quality bio-diesel" costs just 15 pence per litre.

Koch said the cadaver of a fully grown cat can produce 2.5 litres of fuel - meaning around 20 cats are needed for a full tank."

He said: "I tank my car with my own diesel mixture and have driven it for 105,000 miles without any problems."








http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1534821.html?menu=news.quirkies

[KenCarson]

1. how many repubs does it take to fill a tank?

that would at least make them useful



wait, i forgot to account for all the hot air....nevermind

[DrDebug]

19. 2/3

1 repug is at least 30 cats. It's probably even better, because they have a high fat content and fat has a lot of energy...

So you can drive 1,000 miles on one repug if you drive fuel efficient...

[AllyCat]

2. Ummm...fryer fat from the DQ will work too and not kill animals

unless it's lard.

[hlthe2b]

3. So, when he "turbocharges," will he use ole "grandma?"!!!!

Disgusting...

[davidinalameda]

5. I'll donate my body to run someone's SUV

:puke:

[txaslftist]

4. So he's killed how many cats?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. This is really going to piss PETA off. n/t

[berni_mccoy]

7. Get FRIST ON THE PHONE WITH THIS GUY!!!!

[charlie]

8. Ananova

The Weekly World News of online reporting.

[Nickster]

9. I didn't know Frist was an inventor too.

What's really strange to me is that people are figuring out how to make alternative fuels out of just about anything and we still drive gas guzzlers why?

[patcox2]

10. Finally, a good use for cats.

NT

[meisje]

12. I agree!

[AllyCat]

16. Gee, that's real humane of you.

I have never understood how someone can single out one species (or race for that matter) for hatred and abuse.

[patcox2]

21. In most contexts I'd agree with you, but this is cats we're talking.

I don't hate cows and chickens, but I eat chicken embryos all the time and they are yummy, and we kill chickens and cows and actually feed them to cats a lot of the time.

This way, the cats will be able to give something back, instead of just take take take, scratch, hiss, bite, all the time.

[AllyCat]

23. I've not met any who do that unless they've been mishandled

or frightened by humans. Like I said, you've singled out a single species to hate. You're right. You didn't pick cows and chickens. You picked cats. Real scary, cats.

It must suck to live in fear like you do.

[freeplessinseattle]

33. cats have a good sense of a person's character

which is probably why you've had bad experiences with them.

[WePurrsevere]

22. "They first came for the 'Cats'

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a 'Cat'.

Then they came for the 'Dogs',
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a 'Dog'.

Then they came for the 'Senior Citizens',
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a 'Senior Citizen'.

Then they came for the Disabled,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't 'Disabled'.

Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

~*~

It's a slippery slope, too easily taken.

[WePurrsevere]

11. May Karma bite him on the backside hard... There are so many things one...

can use to make bio-fuel (diesel, heating oil, gas-type) with that don't involve using a dead body of any animal. :grr: Good grief, what next humans? :grr: :puke:

[charlie]

14. You believe this hooey?

It's Ananova, the site that makes Batboy stories look like sober reporting.

[Horse with no Name]

17. Gasp!

You mean batboy isn't REAL?????????????????????????

[charlie]

20. No!

And I resent the way that fraud keeps knocking Bigfoot off the front pages!

[WePurrsevere]

27. Okay, sorry I'm not familiar w/the site & after being in animal rescue...

years ago and seeing some pretty nasty atrocities I put nothing past some. Because of this and being a animal lover (especially cats) I simply reacted and didn't check the source. :blush:

If it's a crappy source and a fake story good but I must admit that I hate that it may give some stupid jackass ideas... hopefully it won't.

[charlie]

28. When Drudge links to

a story about a pregnant man or a genetically engineered hen that lays hot Jimmy Dean sandwiches, it's invariably Ananova. They carry real news too, but they're also larded with this Star tabloid stuff.

[WePurrsevere]

30. Thank you... I didn't know they had a connection to Drudge...

I think I need a hot shower and some serious decontamination & scrubbing now.

[Renew Deal]

40. The cat is dead. It doesn't matter.

:hide:

[meisje]

13. I've got 1/2 a tank running around my block right now!

[Horse with no Name]

18. I've got a quarter of a tank running around my living room

This guy is sick.

[AllyCat]

24. Yeah, this guy and patcox2 in the replies above. nt

[calico1]

26. Ditto.

:mad:

[mark11727]

15. But the article says that fuel can be made from a lot of other things...

"Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers."

I don't think I'd much mind running a hybrid car on crass clippings.

[UncleSepp]

25. Now, it doesn't say he killed the cats just for this, does it?

Looks more like he used cats that were dead already, so perhaps the discomfort about "how many cats did he kill" or "this kills animals" may be unneccessary. One has to do something with the dead, after all. Admittedly, gassing up with Soylent Green has its own kind of weirdness, but based on a reading of the article, it doesn't sound like this guy's going to kill Fluffy for fuel.

If you want to make a really creepy sci-fi read on this, think about how much the average cat weighs. If it's about 15 cats to the average fit human and about 20 cats to the tank, with a little stretching and supersizing, you could spin a conspiracy to feed people cheap fattening food so that their bodies produce fuel at one person per tank of gas, and then round them up in FEMA Rex 84 relocation camps where they disappear and become processed into fuel. Throw in Odessa and Operation Paperclip and you'd have a really good, really bad movie!

[Spinzonner]

29. Can we please stop all the caterwauling over this

[myrna minx]

31. I REALLY miss the hide thread function. :-(

[tjwash]

32. It's made out of people...IT'S MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[craigolemiss]

34. My engine just purrs....

Gives it a whole new meaning--LOL

[mark11727]

36. Hoo! Talk about putting a tiger in your tank...!

[Double T]

35. If we took all the bullshit generated by republicans and neocons....

and converted it into methane gas, we could power all of commerce, industry, homes and vehicles throughout the world. Since this is such an abundant source of fuel, we can leave the cats alone!!!!

[lateo]

37. Is Bill Frist an investor in this company?

*snark*

[YOY]

38. This is not even possible

Not even remotely. If it is someone explain it to me.

The only fuel I see coming from decomposing animal matter is the possibly combustible gases created as a byproduct of bacterial decomposition.

How does one create diesel from this???

"Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers.

They are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter"

This doesn't even sound viable. So if one filters the hydrocarbon out of dead animal matter it because deisel??? I don't even partially buy it. Next thing you tell me the world was created in 6 days...


Sorry, but I smell something much worse than BS...I smell dead cat BS.

[The Stranger]

39. 20 cats for a full tank? I'll bet you could fill up on just one inventor.

[Moderator]

41. Locked.

Let's put this kitty out.