If you hate cats and need cheap fuel...

[Mystery Man]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1534821.html


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."

 

[RangerWickett]

It's generally polite to post an excerpt or full copy of an article whenever you link to it. Sure, it's not hard to click on things, but it makes it easier on folks who don't want to browse off-site.

nventor 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."

 

[Mystery Man]

It's generally polite to post an excerpt or full copy of an article whenever you link to it. Sure, it's not hard to click on things, but it makes it easier on folks who don't want to browse off-site.

You my now re-edit yours and take out the exerpt.

 

[Jesus_marley]

Hmmm...

Does this mean that there are now 102 uses for a dead cat?

 

[Jdvn1]

... Wow, that's cool. I wonder if other forms of gas can be made too.

 

[WayneLigon]

So what's special about cats? Could you use any animal carcass at all and get the same result? Might be a good way to dispose of the biowaste from slaughterhouses, or when they have to put down several dozen cattle or whatever because of disease. I think the guy in America that was doing the thermal depolymerization stuff to produce oil was mainly using turkey parts.

Of course, now someone needs to do a game adventure where someone is using human cadavers to solve the oil crisis. "It's people! Solylent Deisel is made out of people!"

 

[Bront]

I wonder if you could use dead plants too?

 

[Mystery Man]

So what's special about cats? Could you use any animal carcass at all and get the same result?

You might, however I think this guy has issues with felines.

 

[kenobi65]

I wonder if you could use dead plants too?

Wouldn't surprise me. I think you can make diesel fuel out of just about anything carbon-based. I'm certain you've heard the stories of people running diesel engines on filtered fast-food deep-fry oil? It has the pleasant side effect of making the engine's exhaust smell like french fries.

I know that there's a lot of work going on now to create fuel ethanol (which, in the U.S., largely comes from corn) out of farm plant waste (i.e., corncobs, corn stalks, etc.)

... Wow, that's cool. I wonder if other forms of gas can be made too.

This, I'm not sure about. An actual engineer would have the real answer, but I think that a Diesel engine is a lot more flexible in what it'll run on than a standard gasoline engine is.

 

[Jdvn1]

This, I'm not sure about. An actual engineer would have the real answer, but I think that a Diesel engine is a lot more flexible in what it'll run on than a standard gasoline engine is.

"There's cat in my gasoline!"
"That's okay, it's diesel."
"Ooooh, phew."