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Before you send your unwanted cat (or whatever animal) to the SPCA...

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by kwik_e_mart, Sep 13, 2005.

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  1. kwik_e_mart

    kwik_e_mart Member

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    ...perhaps there are more ways to literally dispose them... like the following... ( :D or :( , depends on your personal opinion)

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

    Inventor turns dead cats into diesel

    A German inventor says he's found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats.

    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.

    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."

    Annelise Krauss of the Dresden Animal Protection Association blasted Koch's new diesel though, saying: "This is as bad as experimenting on animals."
     
    #1 kwik_e_mart, Sep 13, 2005
  2. Lil Pun

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    Well if their dead and not being used for anything else what's the problem?
     
    #2 Lil Pun, Sep 13, 2005
  3. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    This is genius.....cheap efficient fuel, and getting rid of cats......

    Killing 2 cats with one stone !

    :D
     
    #3 DaDakota, Sep 13, 2005
  4. A-Train

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    Wasn't there a guy that ran his truck off of old grease from Long John Silvers?
     
    #4 A-Train, Sep 13, 2005
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    This is sick but I can't stop laughing.
     
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  6. MadMax

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    that was me. i'd eat the crispies and run my car off the grease left in the little box they came in.
     
    #6 MadMax, Sep 13, 2005
  7. Jeff

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    Anybody touches my cats, they'll wish that they had been turned into diesel fuel.

    :mad:
     
    #7 Jeff, Sep 13, 2005
  8. KingCheetah

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    I'm developing a moped that runs on hamsters.
     
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  9. DaDakota

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    You are such a sensitive soul....

    ;)

    DD
     
    #9 DaDakota, Sep 13, 2005
  10. Uprising

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    Wow! It's a win win situation!

    A-Train, there are a number of people who still do that in the USA. I saw something on CNN the other day showing some people siphoning (sp is wrong I know) the grease and then filtering it.

    Having worked at a fast food joint and having to empty the buckets of grease into the large container outside, I can say that can't be a very pleasent thing to to to get a full tank of fuel.
     
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  11. Two Sandwiches

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    I've often wondered how much it would cost to get a car converted to vegetable oil. Eventually it would pay for itself, as most fast food joints are happy to give you oil.


    Also, supposedly people have invented ways of running cars off tap water, but the government bought out their patents before it went public....


    ...That's just a conspiracy theory out there...
     
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  12. tested911

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    :D Oh my god I can't stop laughing about the visuals... Think about it your driving down the road and you happen to notice your low on fuel. You spot a cat on the road now your thinking :).... Or theres a dead cat on the road you pop open your hood and bam half a tank of gas just made your day :)
     
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  13. Two Sandwiches

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    Question....



    Why is it just cats?
     
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  14. Two Sandwiches

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    Nevermind...reread the thread title. :eek:
     
    #14 Two Sandwiches, Sep 13, 2005
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    Strange memories of the movie "Gummo" have now surfaced......
     
    #15 weakfromtoday, Sep 13, 2005
  16. Isabel

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    so H2O --> ??? + energy ? If water could react with anything and produce an exothermic reaction... it would have done it by now.

    There is a way of running a car with water (vapor) as the product: 2H2 + O2 --> 2H2O + energy. Unfortunately, these are cumbersome and have some leak/ safety issues. Besides, there is the expense of producing the hydrogen and operating the entire thing.
     
    #16 Isabel, Sep 13, 2005
  17. kwik_e_mart

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    Squirrels definitely will do... but the problem is how many of them do you need to run over before you have a full tank of gas?

    Say one squirrel = 250ml... if your tank capacity is 60L, then you need to kill 240 of these overpopulated creatures! This is not to mention that by the time you accomplished this remarkable feat, you would have already wasted substantial amounts of fuel... ;)
     
    #17 kwik_e_mart, Sep 14, 2005
  18. Dr of Dunk

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    Whew, what a relief :

    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9339530/

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    Inventor denies using dead cats for fuel

    German says alternative diesel uses waste paper products, possibly a toad

    Updated: 12:33 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2005
    BERLIN - A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.

    Christian Koch, an inventor and patent holder of the “KDV 500” that he said produces high quality fuel, said he can transform waste products such as paper, rubbish and plastic materials into fuel.

    But Koch, 55, said there was no truth to stories published in Bild newspaper on Tuesday and Wednesday that suggested he used dead cats as part of the mix for his organic diesel fuel.

    “I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish,” Koch told Reuters.

    “It’s an alternative fuel that is friendly for the environment. But it’s complete nonsense to suggest dead cats. I’ve never used cats and would never think of that. At most the odd toad may have jumped in.”

    Bild on Tuesday wrote a headline: “German inventor can turn cats into fuel -- for a tank he needs 20 cats.” The paper on Wednesday followed up with a story entitled: “Can you really make fuel out of cats?”

    A spokesman for Bild told Reuters the story was meant to show that cat remains could “in theory” be used to make fuel with Koch’s patented method.

    The author of the story said Koch had never told him directly that he had used dead cats as the story implied.

    The website of Koch’s firm, “Alphakat GmbH”, says his patented “KDV 500” machine can produce what he calls the “bio-diesel” fuel at about 23 euro cents (30 cents) a liter, which is about one-fifth the price at petrol stations now.

    “I drive my normal diesel-powered car with this mixture,” Koch is quoted saying in Bild, next to a large picture of a kitten. “I have gone 170,000 km (106,000 miles) without a problem.”
     
    #18 Dr of Dunk, Sep 15, 2005
  19. RocketsPimp

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    He stole Dr. Brown's flux-capacitor!
     
    #19 RocketsPimp, Sep 15, 2005
  20. Rocket G

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    You mean stile his Dr. Fusion - the flux capacitor was only for time travel.
     
    #20 Rocket G, Sep 15, 2005
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