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Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car
Kelmar writes "CNN is running a story about how a German inventor has found a way to power a car using dead cats. Yes you read that right. According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter. Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are saying that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany."
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
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.
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Cue joke about "CATalytic converters"...
Mind you, the Brits had a car called a Morris Minor. It's nickname was the "moggie". Is this the same thing?
Does anyone know if Germany has any WMDs it needs to be liberated of? If not, when's the soonest the American government can give it some so they can invade?
I know I'll get modded down for this, it was a joke. But then again some people have had their sense of humour surgically removed.
A use for a cat? Who could have imagined it?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
That nice purring sound of the engine is strictly no coincidence.
ISO certified == THX certified
"Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten."
Woohoo! We can now masturbate AND power our car with the results!
*grabs a box of tissues*
This was a story by BILD, the world's largest tabloid newspaper. It is nicely rebuked at Bildblog.de which is a meta-blog following BILD and exposing it's errors, bias and lies. The company ("Alphakat") simply develops a method to process waste as a kind of Bio-Diesel.
Fleur de Sel
...woulld be pleased.
... I think I speak for everybody when I say "Ewww!"
... to the phrase "catalytic converter".
While it may not be such a good idea to find stray cats to fill up your car, I think the development is certainly interesting.
If you take BSE for instance, where tens of thousands of cows are slaughtered 'just in case' and are unfit for consumption - what if we could use those animals for fuel? Or maybe even insects or Republicans. Ridding your house of pests may fill your car up at the same time. Africa may be able sell its grasshopper plague with enough profit to buy more food.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
Gee, why not state that he's making them from human corpses? Hell, if he did then michael moore could make a movie about how bush singly handedly created hurricane katrina in order to turn black people into oil (if he hasn't already done so).
There's no reason why the fuel can't be exclusiuvely made out of less controversial (and, from a cat owner's point of view, less offensive) fuel farm animal waste products, trash and other oranic waste.
The only reason, I see, that he mentioned cats was to get on the news.
"CNN is running a story about how a German inventor has found a way to power a car using dead cats. ...... Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are siting that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany."
........??
It does say the cats are dead, so what do the Animal Rights Activists see wrong in here?!
I thought it said "a cost of about $0.30 per litter". And I wondered who would be cruel enough to be selling cat litters for fuel.
but does it require the use of a catalytic converter to run properly, or are unconverted cats okay? *hides
When the posters fear their moderators, there is tyranny; when the moderators fears the posters, there is liberty.
Keep in mind that "Bild" is one of the biggest and *worst* tabloid papers there is in Germany - take everything they write with a bucket of salt.
The English equivalent would be the "Sun", I think.
Wow, Maybe cats finally have a use on this planet. Hmm, Do you give to use all 9 lives?
Can the process be used to produce energy once for each of a cat's nine lives? If so, it should be popular with environmentalists.
meows to the mile?
...until we hear someone screaming:
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The Alphakat website states (in german) that the messages distributed by the media about Dr. Christian Koch (Koch is german for 'cook') processing dead cats into diesel are false and unfounded. And that legal action is being taken against those who made these allegations...
-- Neminem laede, immo omnes, quantum potes, iuva.
Surely a catalitic convertor is Prior art?
Try the veal
input to 'cat' produces equal amounts of output with 100% efficiency. I've never had any dropped ASCII characters when using cat.
animal rights activists shush, this process apparently involves dead animals, so if they're dead, what will you be doing about it? Will the dead animals benefit from your actions?
In any case, many dead animals end up processed for animal food anyway.
B.
Every experiment which ends in a big bang is a good experiment.
"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."
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
From what I understand, you're using the lipids in the bio-matter. Water's got to be boiled off, and all the other junk removed.
Unless cats are just big blobs of fat, seems kind of inefficient to me.
You can't know that until you open the box.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
This could actually be very dangerous if the cats processed the wrong way. When the mad-cow-cows are burnt they have to be burnt at a very high pressure or the mad-cow - virus-particles (prions actually) will not be destroyed. The prions will be spread in the wind. Imagine if everyone got the mad-cat-disease by walking behind the purring cars. /Joe Bob
That's just a hoax of our famous 'newspaper' called Bild. If you can read German, visit the Bildblog, a blog dedicated to debunk all of Bilds hoaxes. In the meantime, Dr. Christian Koch put a note on his website, declining that he is using dead cats to produce fuel.
'siting'?
To 'site' is to place something such as a building or an event on a given piece of land: 'We sited the new airport on reclaimed ground to the north of the city."
To 'cite' is to refer to a document: 'The mayor cited reports that showed that the airport was unneccessary.'
Neither word is appropriate in the context of the summary. 'Claimed' or 'asserted' would have been better.
The editor was probably trying, in an adorably muddled way, to write the word 'cite'. He didn't do very well. He should probably get a pat on the head anyway. At least he tried. At least he _seems_ to have picked a word of some kind, even though it wasn't the right word, even though he couldn't really write it... he tried.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
"Die im Moment in den deutschen Medien verbreiteten Meldungen Dr. Christian Koch würde Katzenkadaver zu Diesel verarbeiten sind absolut falsch und entbehren jeden Bezug zur Realität. Juristische Maßnahmen gegen diese Behauptungen wurden bereits unternommen. "
(The news currently spread in the German media that Dr. Christian Koch processes cat-cadavers into diesel-fuel is absolutely wrong and has no connection whatsoever to reality. Judicial measures against these accusations have been taken already.)
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There are already plenty of great uses for cats.
The heating of organic materials that contain fats to produce a bio-diesel fuel - not quite the image of burning dead cats (thankfully).
-- Intelligence is soluble in alcohol
They'll have to update the book "101 Uses For A Dead Cat" http://www.undergroundhumor.com/books/101_uses_dea d_cat.htm now, to keep it accurate.
Your copy is now outdated.
How much fuel can I get out of my BROTHER!
Just theoretically speaking of course..
you have been trolled by BILD.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Hell, if he did then michael moore could make a movie about how bush singly handedly created hurricane katrina in order to turn black people into oil (if he hasn't already done so).
come on, nobody believes that bush single-handedly created the hurricane. its pretty obvious that he had some help.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
It costs well over 30 cents to raise a cat, and wait for it to die.
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...produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter...
... like the body or the subject!)"
I think we solved the oil shortage problem. Just raise cats - at something like 0.50$ a day for cat food - then make biofuel out of them...
"Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
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How about verifying facts before citing?
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
...for both CNN and slashdot. Seriously, Bild is the world's largest tabloid newspaper, and probably the worst of all of them.
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Making fuel out of organic waste is nothing really new or revolutionary. Using dead animals for this is not illegal at all.
Read more at http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 (German)
Babelfish translation http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pa
So let me get this straight... stem cell research from dead human embryos is good but using dead cats is offensive?
One could presumably also use the remains of other creatures, such as politicians, lawyers, and estate agents.
"In theory".
If your comment title says 'Re: Foo', I'm not likely to read it.
oh man.... you are one of those people who believe everything you hear on tv or read in the papers, aren't you?
As The Register points out, this is theoretically possible, but not planned:
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.
It then goes on: The underlying principle is fairly straightfoward: all organic material, animals and vegetables, contains fatty acids, albeit often in large involatile fat molecules. These can be broken down by heat into fatty acids and their derivatives which can in turn be converted into biodiesel.
So, unfortunately, nothing too spectacular here.
are so much more common than waste deep fryer oil.
I guess you can at least pick up fuel on the way home.
Listen to that engine purr...
There's an offical statement about this story on http://www.alphakat.de/.
Statement translated to English:
The messages Dr. Christian cook spread for the moment in the German media Katzenkadaver would convert to Diesel is absolutely wrong and would miss each purchase to the reality. Legal measures against these statements were already undertaken.
...about "putting a tiger in your tank"???
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
... and some are siting that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany."
They can't even get spelling and/or grammar correct, what chance do we have for facts?
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...we are driving our cars on carcasses already.
Carcasses of dead dinosaurs.
Maybe we should put a nice picture of a smiling little dinosaur on the frontpage of the Bild, together with a phrase reading : "Dinosaurs mistreated for human cars!"
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to produce 1.21 gigawatts worth of power for a flying time-travelling car?
^_^
Here's one possibility: Put A Tabby In Your Tank.
...it's reported that there has been found a way to power a car using dead dinosaurs...
RTFA here.
(*) Live Cats Pulling The Car
This news is simply no news. Its a story entirely made up by the biggest german tabloid called Bild. Everyone in Germany with a little education knows that Bild lies in every second line. It's sad to see that even CNN and Reuters fall for stories made up by Bild. I have been in the States for six months and i do have to say that i was amused by the "news" being broadcasted first which soon shifted for me to feel sorry for you guys over there. Unfortunatly there seem too few people having a critical approach to what the news tell them and who inform themselves from really different sources. This is a link to a german blog by journalists that monitor Bild covering the "cat-fuel" article: http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 It's german, don't know if babelfish etc will be able to translate it properly.
Complete and utter BS
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050914/od_nm/germany
Petrol Direct are the answer to the UK's rising fuel prices - cheap fuel by post, with innovative biofuel products too.
Check out Petrel(TM) a fuel source made from a mixture of seabird guano, combined with the rendered down, fermented and then distilled corpses of a variety of common gulls, albatrosses and terns.
And "Vin Diesel" - Made from the foulest and most undrinkable European wines
Marvellous.
a new use for the cat detector van.
Anybody want a peanut?
Since you seem extraordinarily gullible, especially as it relates to cats, I highly recommend a visit to Bonsai Kitten.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I know this is /., but really. "siting"?
Don't you even have a spell-check you can run on stuff before you post it to the front page? If not a programmatic spell check, how about eyeballing something for about 10 seconds? Something like "siting" should stick out like a sore thumb to you. If it doesn't, maybe you should get someone else to edit...
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But where are the poptarts?
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Back to the Future was set in 1985, at the end of the first / beginning of the second movie he travels 30 years into the future, and voila - in 2015 the cars use waste as fuel.
Nothing.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
The story was first run by "Bild", the biggest german yellow press paper, that turned quotes like "we don't care what he does with dead animals" to "what a cruelty!" :)
The whole article is utter bullshit, more can be found here.
Use your favourite babelfish to translate.
How you 'editors' made it out of third grade, I'll never fathom.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
This is a most welcome development, as Europe (and indeed the West as a whole) are currently guilty of the most shameful under-utilisation of our dead cat reserves. More research should be done in this area - for example, the claws might well make excellent tootpicks, and the flesh of the younger, less muscular specimens might become a useful source of cheap protein for the poor - and this is to say nothing of the possibilities offered by the eyes (road safety anyone?) and other parts. As a final note, apart from the rabbit, this is probably the ultimate in (self) renewable energy sources. My girlfriend's family have a particularly sluttish moggy whose offspring alone could easily both family cars, had we access to such technology.
As somebody who works in the alternative-fuels sector, I can tell you that this story (and its misrepresentation by a tabloid newspaper) are entirely unsurprising. It's possible, with the right processes, to turn pretty much any organic matter into fuel you can run a vehicle on. This is not the challenge; it hasn't been for quite a few years now.
No, the trick is to find a fuel source which requires little energy and expense to produce and can be converted into usable fuel on an industrial basis through an easily scaled process that does not produce excessive polution on either a global scale (through carbon emissions) or a local level (through factors such as an unbearable smell). There's already good progress being made towards this in Western and Northern Europe. Cats, however, are not now and never will be counted as an attractive bio-fuel.
This horrific person must have a similar mental illness to that of Hitler, in which he is driven to perform the most terrifying acts against humanity. ...
I wonder what it is about this country that brings out the worst in the human psyche? Nothing against Germany per se but I do know (from my old German girlfriend) that there are certain pathologies about analysis and logic games that thread the society.
1 - There were plenty of posts on Slashdot exposing the story as a hoax before you posted. Shame you didn't read them.
2 - Using dead cats as fuel would not be a crime against humanity any more than using dead dinosaurs is.
3 - Sad that you feel compelled to compare germans alive today to Hitler. That ex-girlfriend of yours must have done some real damage, eh?
cat /lost+found/* > /dev/carburettor
I'm not insane. My mother had me tested.
Sigh.
Siting = choosing the location of something.
Citing = quoting a reference. I think this is what the original poster was getting at.
Sighting = seeing something.
well what else would you do ? dead rats go to compost too. i`m very egalitarian, whatever ends up on dinner plate gets eaten (crocodile and locust, yummi). why should i not throw stuff on compost ? after all, we`re already joking along the line...
people at the burial institute have an average of 7 burials a week, 3 cremations and 2 compostations - the green party members get older, too...
still cannot imagine you placing such a high esteem on friggin critters. otherwise you`ld be totally not driving a car, not eating dead animal and hopefully entering a vegetarian asian monastry... after all, we`re all sooner or later reborn as a cat, aren`t we ?
ever since people started to become removed from the process of killing their meal, they no longer can stand the idea, but eat 4-5 big macs or a big steak... pathetic bunch. wish the bigotists would rather die and leave mother nature alone...
feel the sarcasm drippin...
www.vehmt.org
save earth, take a dive.
You, sir, are a sentimental idiot.
Be informed that Germany is more than Hitler, the girl that dumped you (= Hitlerish) and crazy engineers that are said to kill small furry things for fuel (= Hitlerish).
Even if Dr. Koch happens to use actual animal bodies for fuel, would you mind if it were bugs, or spiders? Do you know that in Germany it is the law to get your pet dogs'/ cats'body to a "Tierkörperverwertungsanstalt" (roughly translated "Animal corpses processing facility"), where its body is grind up to "Tiermehl" ("Animal wheat") that used to be fed to farm animals before BSE? Now it is burnt for electricity. Yes. that is electricity out of little kitty! BTW, this law is to protect people from diseases of too many corpses laying around.
What would be the problem in not processing animal cadavers to electricity, but to fuel? Facing energy costs that would feel near to insane to you US guys (we are paying 1,50 per litre for fuel), I greatly appreciate using alternative fuel systems. And the cat population tends to grow! No energy problems for the next few centuries.
BTW: Actually Dr. Koch uses garbage for fuel. The claim he used cats is made by a german tabliod that is probably funded by our fellow oil companies. Wrecking ones inventions for profit by false claims that outrage the public idiot is quite common in ye ol'de europe.
This message was typed for your convinience right in the ex-Third Reich.
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What happens to the material removed when people have lipsuction? I'd have thought this would be a good source of fuel......
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to the term "catalytic convertor"...
Sparks:Gadget:Beer Maker
./ has been pwned once again. kekekeke.
Finally a solution for the World's excess cat problem... or is it?
by Berylp g
Look like a tabloid? It is.
http://www.bildblog.de/wp-content/koch1.jpg
http://www.bildblog.de/wp-content/katzenbenzin2.j
(images provided by Bild Blog, explained lower)
And the news is 100% fake with all involved now sueing BILD.
http://bildblog.de/
Scroll down and read "Von Katzen und dummen Menschen" (Of Kats and Dumb People)
(You'll need to learn/know German or use Babelfish)
The blogers are two journalists that investigate BILD.
BILD reported bullshit and everyone else just sucks it up as pathetic the fucktards* they are, the dude even has on webpage that's it completely false and he's suing them for all the shit they're causing from years-old research that has nothing to do wiith what he said.
*Caring only for the shock-effect and not caring about reality, or any annoying thing like that.
http://www.alphakat.de/index.html
""WICHTIGE MITTEILUNG !
Die im Moment in den deutschen Medien verbreiteten Meldungen Dr. Christian Koch würde Katzenkadaver zu Diesel verarbeiten sind absolut falsch und entbehren jeden Bezug zur Realität.
Juristische Maßnahmen gegen diese Behauptungen wurden bereits unternommen."
"Important Notice!
The news currently being spread by certain a German News Agency concerning me using cat cadavers to produce Diesel is utterly wrong and have nothing to do with reality. I have taken legal steps against these accusations."
BILD also completely made up the "cited animal rights activists", and the people in question are enraged - and say they don't care how cadavers are treated as the only care about living animals. Duh.
Bild's also the paper that has titles like MANNER SIND JETZT PORTU-GEIL!!! (Men are now Portu-HORNY!!!" and are plastered with tits every day but Sunday, where they play "innocent Christian"... If you trust them, or even CNN who are about as neutral as Condoleeza Rice, as your only news source...
We do have human shit powered power plants, though...
look here http://www.changingworldtech.com/
Oil from biomass.
They couldn't even spell cited right.
"sited" - yeah right.
it sounds like...
;-) Try Mr. Google!
This was news a year or so ago. 'Changing World Technologies' I think?! Can't be bothered looking for a link...
He who knows does not speak, he who speaks does not know...
According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter.
That should read "$0.30 per litter". Typical slashdot editorial laxness!
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
Catwoman's final blow.
They'll be able to dig out all their old adverts. The ones that run with the byline "Put a tiger in your tank".
Am I too late to respond with the obvious... is it $0.30 (US) per liter or $0.30 (US) per litter ?
Poke some holes in the box.
"Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!"
~Harcourt Fenton Mudd
About the cat story:
http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791
(in german language)
It seems so obvious, anx yet Simon Bond never predicted it.. I'll bet the engine just purrs* along too. (*sorry).
boakes.org
This piece of kit is a robot that is powered by slugs. It searches for slugs and places them into it's fermentation pod in order to power itself. The creator said he planned to make a larger model powered by rats that could run about indefinately in the sewers. I'm not sure how far along this project has gotten...
http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~ikelly/tta.htmlLink
http://www.frenchgeek.com/
Its Fake Folks..
Fred Grott(aka shareme) http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com
...that urge to harm cats could only lead to good things...
Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car
Really? Where?
Connection closed by foreign host.
That reliable classroom news source for third graders, Scholastic News Edition 3, reported in their April 18, 2005 edition (not archived on-line) that a Long Island (New York, USA) firm converted discarded turkey bones, feathers, and guts into fuel. A quick Google Search led to the Wikipedia description of thermal depolymerization, a process for rendering complex organic material, typically waste, into light crude oil. Turkey parts are more readily available than dead cats.
There are a lots of stray cats on the streets, and if you live in a metropolis (like I do - 3 million ppl.) chances are that the City already kills -- puts down -- 100s of cats everyday.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
In a short sixty years, Germany has gone from gassing cats, to having cats produce it.
end of monopoly in alternative uses of cats other than the usual pissing on carpets and spreading of rats around the house.
That's all I wanted to say.
A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
This looks like a follow up to the 2 books on the uses of a dead cat.(101 uses for a dead cat,101 more uses for a dead cat and the parody, 101 uses for a dead human) ;-)
"Smile and take this with a grain of salt"
Geek Hillbilly
The headline had me anticipating a car powered by a cat and some buttered toast but nooooo....
My car runs on Soylent Green. Green alternative fuel. Totally biodegradable and regenerative. It's just that people need to have more babies to produce enough bio-fuel.
--- Eat my sig.
It is not the fuel, but green cookies that scare me...
Where we're going, we don't need roads...
...but let's just say that it was truly about dead cats found on the side of the road.
Exactly what animal rights (which aren't in the U.S. constitution [can't speak for other nations] as far as I know) are being affected here? They're DEAD. I don't think they care. PeTA be damned you fruit cakes!
Aside from the nice purring sound the fuel only costs $0.30/litter.
Of cats and stupid people
Yesterday, "Bild" reported:
[image here with headline: "German inventor can make gasoline out of cats"]
and okay, in the last paragraph, at the very end of their report, BILD has forgotten a letter 'e' in the surname of quoted animal welfare activist "Annelise Krauß". But even Anneliese Krauß doesn't really mind. However, BILD didn't quote her name just for fun, but together with the following statement:
"'This is just as evil as cruel animal experiments', fulminates Annelise Krauß of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals in Dresden."
And that is total "rubbish", says Krauß when asked about it, because she never fulminated nor even actually made the statemant quoted by BILD. Quite the contrary: "This would be idiotic," says Krauß, "because when it's about dead animals, then it's a non-issue for animal welfare!" In short, the animal welfare activist states about Christian Koch's invention (who, according to BILD, turns cats into gasoline):
"As far as we are concerned, there is no problem at all."
And that, by the way, was exactly what she says she told BILD. (But, so Krauß continues, when "Mr. Helfricht", one of the authors of the BILD article, calls her, then she knew from experience that BILD will print things she never said or meant that way. Things have been running this way in Dresden for over ten years, says Krauß. - And that was just the discussion of the first paragraph of the BILD article.
Let's have a look at the rest, the actual information that "Dr. Christian Koch (55) aus Kleinhartmannsdorf (Saxony)", as BILD states, "can turn cats into gasoline": Even a look at the BILD article reveals that the "gasoline" headline in itself is nonsense, because the article only talks about "Bio-Diesel" or "Diesel". In fact, Koch seems to have found an unusual and effective alternative to producing fuel: the catalytic pressureless oilification (KDV) [ed: not sure about the correct term], about which several other federal and private TV stations and newspapers reported, beginning in 2003 until recently. And all of these other reports have one thing in common: they do justice to the topic they are reporting about, even when reporting critically.
BILD, however, calls Koch's invention a "special reactor" and prints sentences like the following:
"The cat power can in theory be calculated exactly: A fully grown 13 pound cat could be turned into 2.5 liters of fuel, four kitties would be enough for 100 kilometers, a full tank would require 20 dead cats."
And if you just ask the "man who can put the (house) tiger in the tank" (BILD), Christian Koch replies: "the BILD report has nothing to do with the truth and furthermore, it's infinitely stupid". Koch continues:
"How could you move a vehicle with boiled organic material? Water would immediately stall any engine. Here, the lowest instincts of stupid people are appealed to, just to libel a valuable invention. (...) To imply me handling animal cadavers is criminal. That is not the least the aim of the development and can thus only be regarded as defamation."
Furthermore, the website of of Koch's company now states:
[image: "The reports of German media about Dr. Christian Koch turning cat cadavers into Diesel are completely wrong and lack any reference towards reality whatsoever. Legal action has been taken against those statements]
Thanks to Jan S. for the suggestion.
Addition, 12:15: Today, BILD has again picked up the "cat power" theme:
[headline: "May we really turn cats into gasoline?"]
But even if the article - more cautiosly than yesterday - states, that Christian Koch "could theoretically" produce Bio-Diesel "from cats", even if not Koch, but a competitor, is allowed to adjust yesterday's artificial scandalisation by BILD, even if the animal welfare activists' relaxed position is repeated more correctly and less
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
Actually, AFAIK a lot of crematories use the heat from the cremation for hot water, radiators etc. in the building.
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with that. It's not like the dead care anyway.
The cat is dead or alive only when you actually look at the fuel gauge.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
thats on of them cat powered cars just watch it go when see's that dog powered cars. Grrrrrr Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooow
...he wants his cat back.
Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.
1. Shrödinger's Cat
2. Cat powered car
3. ???
4. Proffit!!!
my car runs on dead dinosaurs
I hate to break this guy's bubble, but wouldn't he get the same, if not more, use out of the cat food, than the cat?
I'm probably wrong, but it's obvious enough to at least experiment with. Then again, cat food is expensive... I'd rather by 150 octane gas. Maybe dog food?
If he has to use former-living material as a base, at least use squirrels. Those suckers are everywhere. That, and nobody looks at you (too) funny if you claim to have eaten squirrel. Very in the western cultures claim to eat cats.
(Give me some credit, I avoided any hamster/wheel jokes.)
I8-D
I don't mind feeding dead cats into my car, but do I really have to put a tray of kitty litter under the muffler every night?
By the way, some parts of Australia have a really bad feral cat problem, and they kill off the native wildlife like you wouldn't believe. One guy has a solution: he fences off a large piece of land and shoots all the cats inside the fence. As a sideline he sells catskin hats (Like a frontiersman's hat, complete with the dangling tail. I assume the studded collar and bell are optional extras)
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TFA says he
Which is fine, but that's a meaningless comparison. In the United States, the tax on gasoline is a huge percentage, and I've heard that in some places in Europe, up to 80% of the money you're paying at the pump goes to taxes, and as little as 20% of it goes to the actual cost of fuel. If this is true, that obliterates his factor of 5 right there.
Can anyone in Germany comment on what percentage of the money that you pay at the pump goes to taxes? One site I found indicates the tax on diesel was 47.04 euro cents per liter in 2003 and 65.45 euro cents per liter on gasoline, but the chart on that site is hard to read and unclear.
But let's just assume that figure is accurate and compare things taking into account taxes. The article says it costs him 23 euro cents to produce a liter, and that regular diesel costs 5 times that much at the pump. That means you pay about 115 euro cents at the pump. If his biodiesel were subject to the same taxes, and if it were free to store it and transport it and there were no markup at all anywhere from manufacturing all the way to retail sales, then his biodiesel would be 70 cents per liter. So, what you pay at the pump right now is only 1.6 times as much as the minimum his fuel could ever really cost if it were sold at the pump, not 5 times as much.
As president of the North American Man-Cat Love Association, I'm horrified at the idea that anyone would use these beautiful animals in a way other than nature intended.
I mean, masturbation is bad enough. Think of the kittens!
we see things not as as they are, but as we are.
-- anais nin
From reading the Reuters article the inventor said that a German newspaper falsely reported that dead cats can be used. The inventor was never really quoted about using dead cats. He said it was quite possible that it would work. However, he has never used animals, except for maybe a frog that jumped in the mixture.
-un
But then again, I'm bitter for not having my correct version of the story accepted.
Yopu for you?
I bet the inventor has a vanity license plate on his car that reads:
I8URCAT
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If Toonces is driving the car!
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Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
First of all, this topic comes from the German equivalent of the National Enquirer. No one needs to point that out (again) in response to this post.
But what the hell kind of twisted disconnect does modern society have when the thought of actually using corpses (of cats, dogs, even people) for something useful absolutely horrifies us, yet at the same time we can walk into a McDonalds and take our pick from a selection of (at least) four different species of corpse-on-a-bun?
Hell, I don't eat meat, yet see no problem with turning rotting carcases into oil. How can anyone who condones factory meat production (which includes the vast majority of people) not also deal with doing something useful with the waste parts?
This could have a strong impact on the restaurant industry in the mountain west where many cafes rely on roadkill as their source of meat.
Andreas: The discussion is extraneous, as there are too few pets. Their part in the total amount of butchering waste is negligible.
Yes, using fatcats for fuel is out of the question, but pigs and cows would be ok!
Install a ram scoop on the front of the vehicle!
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Anybody else remember that old, slightly disturbing book?
Probably came out about 20 years ago.
I guess it's outdated, now.
102 Uses for a Dead Cat?
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
That kind of car would be perfect for the bumper sticker I have: "Lost your cat? Try looking under my tires"
--Mike Boos
That means it could also offset the cost of a funeral. Cremation is much too expensive, and you don't really get anything in return. This way, you can actually make money while dealing with your beloved family members remains. I'll bet your 250 lb mother could make more than 20 gal of bio-diesel.
So Schrödinger will never know if his car will start?
Hmmm....
Batmobile
Jaguar
Pinto
Mustang
my favorite... the Hummer
Estimates range from twenty cents to a buck fifty in subsidies per gallon of gasoline. The subsidies come in the form form of grants, no-interest loans, tax breaks, and other incentives for oil exploration, pipeline building, refinery expansion and other activities.
I don't know about Europe, but it seems to me that one ought to take any subsidies into account before one starts trying to calculate the ``true'' cost of gasoline.
Just Google for "thermal depolymerization" or "changing world technologies" and you'll find the American approach to this technology -- currently using turkey parts.
Some interesting points to observe. . .
The test plant is producing some kind of oil that they can successfully sell -- but they aren't producing profit. Problem one is, they aren't getting the tax break they expected, since what they make doesn't officially qualify as a bio-fuel (it's too similar to real crude oil?). Problem two is that they expected feeding of turkey parts to livestock would be banned, to prevent the spread of disease. It wasn't, so now they have to pay for the turkey waste instead of being paid to haul it off.
An extremely foul (not to mention fowl) odor was reported coming from the plant. I've read from one source that the odor may not have been caused by the refining process, but they were kind of vague about what actually caused it and whether it could be suppressed.
A noted expert (sorry I don't remember his name) in the field of industrial chemical recycling has called the whole "thermal depolymerization" concept a fantasy, a hoax, a scam. He said they are merely rendering animal fat from the turkeys and then portraying it to the public as something akin to transmuting lead into gold.
finally...a use for cats
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/cats_fuel_ diesel/
Germany was invaded by americans long ago.
You are about 50 years late. I don't know if you ever heard about something nicknamed WWII. The americans invaded germany (this time they actualy had quite good reasons to do so) and created some base and now they are still there.
So technicaly, it is still invaded.
Nigral
First China was harvesting skin of executed political prisinors, now they can use them for fuel?
I sense a shift in the political balance of power.
I'm pretty certain if it works with Cats it works with people.
Killer
Surely there's enough biodiesel (and other flammable liquids) in that useless windbag Ted Kennedy's carcass to power an inner-city bus for several years. And as an added bonus, onen could keep Robert F. Jr. in the trunk as an "auxiliary fuel tank", as it were.
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Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
...and so it was that Chinese restaurants became the downfall of the big oil industry.
-Me, in the future to my grandkids
DISCLAIMER: I like Chinese food. I eat it about once a week.
Windows isn't the answer... it's the question. NO is the answer!
$0.30 per liter or $0.30 per litter?
Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are saying that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany.
:-)
As the "animals" actually already are carcasses in the first place, I do not think that animal rights activists need to be concerned.
Oh, AND the story is complete bullshit. But that's only thanks to BILD, Germany's worst tabloid. Nice to see how the U.S. media is picking up these stupid stories, though...
Did they actually mean $0.30 per liter, or $0.30 per litter...?
"Can you point me in the direction of a single instance of Michael Moore lying or exagurating something bad that Bush has done?"
i n-Fahrenheit-911.htm
On the off-chance that you are serious about your request, I include this link found with a simple google search. Sorry that I didn't persevere to find a link to a SINGLE instance as requested.
http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-
Disclaimer: This post is meant to assist the google-challenged. I do not endorse the site linked above, or guarantee in any way the accuracy of the material presented there.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
Now instead of regular, super and extra you get tabby, callico and persian...
Remember... A boomerang IS NOT the best way to deliver a bomb.
Anyone know how many meows-per-gallon you'd get?
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
look here for the translation.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
And here I was just thinking that we'd finally solved the problem of perpetual roadkill.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
Because catskins are free.
"Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are saying that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in German"
I found that odd. Better to leave the roadkill on the road? Or better to bury them once we put the THOUSANDS to sleep each year so their little souls can rest in peace? "You know me, Marge! I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my roadkill LEFT ON THE ROAD!"
Shouldn't that be 30 cents per litter?
(I'm english, it's spelt litre here, so I mis-read the article anyway)
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and you should be fine.
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I make biodiesel now for a LOT less than $0.30/liter (appx $1.15/gallon) by using old Fryolator grease. I have a friend that runs several restaurants and instead of him paying $0.30/gallon for a company to come dispose of his old grease, I take it off his hands for free and react it in my toolshed. I make so much of the stuff that I have to use it for cleaning supplies (it does wonders on laundry), to fuel hurricane lamps (a lot more romantic than a lightbulb, not that most /.ers have much need for romance, it seems) and for my camp stove. See www.journeytoforever.org for more information.
Yes but then you would get mad car disease.
One day we'll be harvesting limbs and organs from human clone farms. Why not use dead cats to fuel our cars?
What a waste of good food
This is NOT new, cat engines have been around since the early 1900s. An example from cat.com: "The Cat Engines used in our generator sets are designed for long life before overhaul."
"No, no, no. This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need." Or apparently just a pile of garbage and a few dead cats.
I'll be driving down the road, and I'll start hearing the meow mix jingle in my car.
Then I'll realize that I need a tuneup.
From TFA: Koch already drove 170000 km using this mixture.
Its 20 dead cats in 50 litres. 50 Litres will take his car at max 1000 km.
Koch has used over (170 * 20) 3400! dead cats to drive his car 4,25 times round the earths equator
Might be a bit of a downer, to be conquered no less then three times by the same country.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
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When I first read that, I read it as $0.30 per litter. Ooops
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Not only was he "misquoted", he never even made any statements to the effect. The quote was entirely fictious. Here's the Reuters story: Inventor: I never used dead cats for fuel
They copy wrong stuff from Germany's worst newspaper. Shame on them.
Sie bildeten Seife und Lampen von den Juden, eine Katze sollten kein Problem sein.
I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like
Er, that'd be shit, Jaw. I wouldn't recommend investigating it too closely in volume, but maybe that's just me.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Sounds a little bit more primitive than the idea I had a while back about powering a car using a matrix for cats. Throw a bunch of cats in the trunk, hook them up to a computer and have them living in a dream world. You know liquify the dead, that sort of thing.
*clank*
Soylent Diesel is....Cats!!!
Illegal? Then it's gotta be illegal to render slaugherhouse byproducts into cosmetics, soap, glue, tallow, lard, "animal protein byproduct", collagen, keratin, etc. in Germany, too.
All he probably needs to do to get his supply of dead cats (and presumably, dogs) is get the leftovers from the veterinarians and animal shelters in his area.
Hey, I've been known to go out and pull dead cats off of the road, just because I don't like seeing housecats that have been run over turned into red smears. I avoid driving over them, at the very least.
But once it's dead, it's dead. It's far different to recycle already dead cats than to go out and kill them just to fuel your car, but in the long run, if the guy was doing this, he'd actually probably be doing his neighborhood good, at least from a naturalist's point of view. Cats are pretty efficient wild bird removers...
Now that we have two barn cats running outside, we don't have too many birds coming to our bird feeders now (it's that, or West Nile has killed them off. Why won't WN kill off the starlings and grackles, though?).
I'm not quite to the "Ted Nugent" level of self-absorption, er, self-actualization, er, I mean, resource recovery. I don't have the heart yet to skin a dead lamb, either to keep the skin as a memento, or to use the skin to try and graft another lamb onto the dead lamb's mother during lambing season. But it is part of the business, and will need to eventually.
If it was feasible to do this, at least in the US in most areas there's a plentiful supply of roadkill cats, oppossums, raccoons and skunks, at the very least.
This article makes a great point (for homeowners). You may want to think about investing in reducing energy costs in your house, rather than investing in your transportation (anyway, a car is not an investment; a house is). There may be a larger payback for you - more bang for the buck if you mod your house.
There are lies and there are lies. There are lies of commission and lies of ommission. Moore doesn't "lie" (tell outright statements that can be disproven) but he certainly has no interest whatsoever in the truth.
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.
The article says that he used 'run-over cats' among other ingredients. So where does he get these cats from? Seeing one scurrying across the road, and noticing the fuel needle hovering near the empty mark, wouldn't you be tempted to swerve and make yourself some free fuel?
Perhaps the mark II will have 'fuel scoops' fitted on the front. And if this invention is adapted for larger diesel engines as used in railway locomotives, the cow-catcher could take on a slightly different purpose.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
1) Install cat scooper on the front of the car.
2) Install cat fuel machine inside car.
3) Drive
4) Profit!!!
And to think I've been running them over for free for all these years!
~Ben
So that is why they call it the Pussy Wagon. I thought Tarrantino was referring to something else.
The city is being overrun by a herd of Lucy Liu's.
That's TWO major media outlets that did ZERO fact-checking!
And now, to prove my tinfoil hat is still working-- is it really that much of a stretch to suggest that some oil industry PR firm planted this story? Sure, I may be way off-base, but I think I've earned the right to speculate wildly considering that two major news outlets simply printed untruths.
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So many vehicles, so few cats.
Now I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like
You have visited a "Kentucky Fried Chicken" before right ?
Was that $.30 per liter or litter?
Would a larger cat give you better Cats/Mile?
Sigh.
Grammar = the syntactic rules of a language (e.g. the correct usage of nouns, adjectives, and verbs)
Semantics = the linguistic meaning of the sentence. I think this is what the parent was getting at.
Here is a link to a CNN article showing how this inventor never intended that dead cats be used as fuel. Pure sensationalism from a tabloid journal...what a suprise.
What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Did the moderator even read the first line of the article - "Inventor denies dead cat fuel story".
The post is completely inaccurate.
Jeffrey Rowland already described this in WIGU!
Of course, he didn't actually have to kill the cats first. But we're getting there...technology will catch up someday.
Mickey's Monkey Spunk Moped
(uses flash).
In capitalist United States, the fuel lobby protects rises in fuel oil.
...that the Bush administration is going to sell AlphaKat a lot of bodies from New Orleans for fuel? Forget "soylent green", what about 'Regular or Undeaded"? No, I'm not joking. I really do think that the Bush administration is low enough to do something like this.
3 gallons of waste oil (free)
0.75 gallons of methanol ($2.25)
3.5 ounces of lye (~$0.25)
Total cost: $2.50 for 3 gallons of biodiesel. This equates to $0.22 per liter.
For more info search biodiesel.infopop.cc
Somebody actually found a use for cats!
It's:
I8URKAT
You know where you are? You're in the $PATH, baby. You're gonna get executed!
OK being /., i supposed to see a car made from legos that looked like a cat... or a cat-shaped car running linux, or something...
:(
but a fake story?
This is a bad year for Slashdot...
Is this how the Matrix starts? How long until the cars realize that live humans offer an unlimited supply of fuel?...
It's an egg of course.
Oh well, what the hell...
There are many uses for cat. It is one of the most used utilities - right up there with the likes of ls and echo. Running a car on cat is a bit of a stretch though.
Oh well, what the hell...
Well, we have been running cars on dead dinosaurs for a century, so what is so special about cats? ;-)
Oh well, what the hell...
Defnitely gives new meaning to the term "cat-back".
IT reads that the guy denied using cats but uses trash, plactics and other waste product,,no way it said cats,,it was a rumor.
We are more close to Back to the future than we think.
I have enough baby diaper full of crap to power a shuttle
I posted my oh-so-clever comment about two seconds before reading the exact same thing further down. My bad.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
The article linked in the post states that the dead cat thing is bullshit made up by a tabloid.
I don't know which is the best example of poor journalistic integrity: Bild newspaper for concocting the "dead cat" story or Slashdot for repeating it. It seems like a daily occurrence that I tell myself to find a new geek news forum.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Can I use those?
We Transhumans would like to know. Soylent Green never appealed to us.
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I can see it now.
"Hey, Bob! Come check this out - Just bought it. 8 cylinders. Listen to that baby purr! Yep, $22-5 out the door; Catnip supercharger; 3 year / 36000 hairball warranty. Got a great deal on it - you oughta think about trading in that heap of yours too!"
If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
I get 10 rods to the dead cat and that's the way I like it.
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According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter.
I originally thought that $0.30 a litter was a pretty raw deal.
I first heard of an idea similar to this on The Prairie Home Companion many years ago. It was for a ``roadkill-powered vehicle''. Perfect for trips through the northwoods. (Such a vehicle would have come in handy when I lived in S. Ohio; the dead 'possum supply was seemingly endless.) The drawback to the vehicle's power source was that you often had to take a different route home or wait for a few days for the roadkill to be replentished. I wonder if Garrison Keillor will receive any royalties from these German inventors?
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Why the heck don't they just use mice directly?
We seem to all be weary of alternitive fule. It's like we think it's a good idea, but nobody actually expects it to work. Here somebody makes a machene that can make fule from our wast, and all we can do is insinuate he does it with dead animals.
If it's dead, you killed it.
Dead Cats
I wonder if the animal rights activists that are objecting to this possibility of making biodiesel from dead cats are really considering the relatvie costs in animals harmed in the production of feline diesel and petrodiesel. Perhaps the toal number of animals harmed in the production of petrodiesel (from pulling crude from a well, shipping that crude, refining, shipping the refined fuel, all the way to combustion) is greater than the production of biodiesel from a (already) dead cat.
This paper (http://www.courses.rochester.edu/nobis/animals/Da vis-LeastHarm.htm) for instance argues that people who choose a vegan diet out of concern for the welfare of animals actually do more harm by taking their nutrients from foliage harvested via machinery that if they just ate the cows that harvested if for them.
Details on the KDV 500 mentioned in the article are here . No mentions of cats, though.
In a world that is Free and Open, who needs Windows and Gates?
It's made from felines... felines!
(Of course, if dead cats work then the perhaps real quote would work too.)
Besides take your daughter to work day, now you can have take your cat to work. You are only allowed to come in if your tank is full of cats.
I've always felt there was some kind of relationship between cars and pussy.
Proverbs 21:19
...kinda gives new meaning to the old slogan "put a tiger in your tank" ;)
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I was hoping for something along the lines of the Catbus...
money! complete waste, bad for your health and other's and easy to burn.
I don't feel like it...
Of course, if one reads the article, one finds that the entire issue of cats is made up by the newspaper. The inventor never used cats, and never suggested using cats. Even the author of the newspaper story admitted that. It's an unprovoked, libelous hit piece designed to sell newspapers, nothing more.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
I think the Cat Gas would be great to power the 'Nekobus' (catbus)
http://www.higashiko.net/nekobus/oneko.html
Hmm Fuel from Cats... gives new meaning to 'PETrol'
Sorry
the neighborhood cat lady was unavailable for comment as she scurried about her house attempting to disguise her 200 "babies" as dogs.
I admit to not reading the article, but I am vegan and think this is brilliant! Perhaps we could do the same with other species' corpses?
./revolution
...and I quote "Despite everything certain safety requirements are to be placed against the prOn the one hand this is the requirements to the tightness of the plant, which is ensured by a permanent slight negative pressure connected with a safety disconnection. On the other hand this requirements are to the tightness of supply and removal lines, which dimension, in the case of a disturbance by one sufficiently catch pan are secured, so that no materials can arrive into the soil. "
http://www.alphakat.de/Safety/safety.html
- Sharpen its claws - this would be okay, but why is a catnip-saturated scratching post so much less attractive than a Louis XVI settee?
- Cough up a hairball - a biological necessity, but on the Persian rug?
- Go hunting, and leave the best bits where your dinner guests will find them on arriving.
- Mark the boundaries of its territory with urine - unfortunately, the boundaries are inside the house.
- Do that cute little thing where it chases ghosts across your bed, at 2AM.
- Wake you up for its breakfast by nipping your nose, five minutes before the alarm.
- Serenade the female cats in the neighborhood, at 4AM.
- Use a guest's leg as a scratching post.
- Decide it has as much right to eat from your plate as you do.
- Always think it's on the wrong side of any closed door. Opening the door for the cat doesn't help, as it will be on the wrong side again when it goes through, or it will simply peer through the door and decide it didn't really want to be in that room anyway - until you close the door again.
- Leap from the dresser to the windowsill so it can sun itself, taking care in the process to knock to the floor anything on top of the dresser.
- Exercise its arboreal instincts by chasing a squirrel up a tree, only to promptly forget them once it gets there.
- Express its displeasure with you and the indignity of existence by using your bed for a litterbox.
- Curl up in your lap after ignoring it for weeks...on top of the book you're trying to read.
- Eat every chunk of filet mignon in its bowl, except for the one containing its medication.
- Leave lots of little holes in anyone trying to feed it a pill.
- Walk across your keyb;.l,uygew21oard while you're trying to type.
- Chew on anything stringlike, with a special fondess for power cords and CAT-5 cables.
Enough of this sort of thing, and even the most ardent cat afficionado may begin to, well, fantasize...is "Inventor denies dead cat fuel story." Unless it was recently changed, that is a fairly clear indicator that the Slashdot story was purposely disingenuous.
We are starting a cat ranch in Lacon with 100,000 cats. Each cat will average 12 kittens a year. The cat skins will sell for 30 cents each. One hundred men can skin 5,000 cats a day. We figure a daily net profit of over $10,000. Now what shall we feed the cats? We will start a rat farm next door with 1,000,000 rats. The rats breed 12 times faster than the cats. So we will have four rats to feed each day to each cat. Now what shall we feed the rats? We will feed the rats the carcasses of the cats after they have been skinned. Now Get This! We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the cat skins for nothing!
What about making fuel out of cannabis/hemp ?
It's indeed possible.
Quotation from jackherer.com site:
"CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is non-toxic and has been used to make high-grade diesel fuel, oil, aircraft and precision oil and even the NUMBER ONE vegetable oil. The U.S. Army/Navy standards purchasing specifications list HEMP OIL as the NUMBER ONE preferred lubricant for their machinery. CANNABIS/HEMP is the best sustainable source of plant pulp for biomass fuel to make charcoal, gas, methanol, gasoline and electricity in a natural way."
Dead cats are not renewable at the necessary rate. They should put their money into live cat engine research involving a piece of buttered toast strapped to the back of a cat.
Since cats always land on their feet, and buttered toast always lands butter side down, suspennding the cat in mid-air would, in theory, result in a perpetual energy source.
"The world is a construct of forceful imagination. Those who don't know walk around in the reailties of those who do"
What
Would
Fo'
Shizzle
My
Dizzle?
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
"can transform waste products such as paper, rubbish and plastic materials into fuel."
If it only generatged over 1.21 giggawatts of electricity instead of combustable fuel. They both appear to work on items you pull out of the trash. As for using dead cats, they're biomatter and they're already dead so it's not going to hurt them. I would have used 'roadkill' instead of 'cats'. No one really thinks about roadkill, and it's not animal specific, it's whatever didn't make it across the road, squirel or 'possum or deer or even cat. Dirty Jobs on the Discovery channel had a segment on the nice guys who spend their days cleaning up roadkill, it gets put into compost piles, no reason it can't go into that guy's fuel creation device.
F7 doesn't work, ignore spelling and grammar
You misspelled it.
It's F-L-A-M-E.
What do I win?
The enemies of Democracy are
well we kill cows and pigs and everything moving for food, why not kill cats for fuel? If that really is possible
The last line cracks me up.
OMG, I got an negative score. Wow. :)
I wonder if it would work with bats instead of cats. I always wanted my own Batmobile. ;)
somebody check up on this german researcher's background, think we've heard this story before.....
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
That'll teach me to waste sublety on moderators.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
purr hour ?
Thank you, tahnk you, thank you. I'll be in the bar all evening....
welshmnt
Oh, I see...perhaps I should have confined my reply to the topics of jizz and masturbation if I didn't want to get modded down...those seem to be a big hit with the mods.
Weird, because if you read the actual story, it's about how the guy is not really using cats, it's just a rumor that he's denied.
What is WRONG with the editors?
If Bill Gates were to say, "I really like dogs. I also like peanut butter sandwiches," we'd have a Slashdot story that says, "According to Reuters, Bill Gates does not "really like dogs" or does he "like peanut butter sandwiches."
And then you would predictably respond with a bunch of anti-Microsoft nonsense.
You have to wonder how much deliberate trolling the editors do.
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You're meant to be nerds. Get it right. The corollary for ladies is lords. The corollary for gentlemen is gentlewomen (being the gentry who derive their income from their assets without having to work). So it should read, lords and ladies, gentlemen and gentlewomen. It comes from a banqueting toast.
Curiously, the test word was pedagogy. How did it know?
The animal rights fascists are humor-impaired, and they have access to explosives. Not a good combination.
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I reference the font o' all knowledge, snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.as
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I knew what you were doing, I was making a joke based on the subject of your post.
You were probably modded down because most spelling nazi posts are modded down. Some are modded up, though, because moderators are habitual crack users and thus unpredictable.
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I wonder how many miles per cat he gets...
According to the link provided, dead cats were never used to make BioDiesel. I think its time to update this posting.
The article on BILD was crap.(like most of the others in Bild). I really can't understand why reuters, dpa and other newpapers are still writing articles based on BILD. Several mistakes in BILD articles are corrected every day on http://www.bildblog.de/ (only german)
The story was not
"about how a German inventor has found a way to power a car using dead cats."
It was about how a inventor deigning that he uses dead cats and how
A German newspaper made up the story about cats.
Substantively different
why do they have to be dead?
The guy denies using cats, he developed the system using general waste. Dead cats can be used in theory, but have not yet in practice.
This sig is false.
I don't see why it's ok to use dead dinosaurs (aka Oil) for fuel, but not dead cats.
I read the summary as ".30 per litter".
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
so.. It's Mr Fusion! sweet. I hope someone does build a car based on this. and includes a little plunger for the cats that clog its ravenous maw.
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I could never figure out why women like cats so much, seems like if you took every masculine charecteristic that women hate, multiply it by 10 would'd have a cat's personality.
Funny, I've always thought of it the other way around, which would explain why women love cats. Thankfully, she dosen't puke on the carpet like pussycat does.
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offtopic, eh? you cocksuckers. Show me one post from this article that is on topic.
You fucking reported the news wrong, how can you call anything offtopic?
fucking damn cocksuckers.
cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter
Liter? What the heck is a 'Liter'?? Another one of those imperial measurements I haven't heard of I bet.
It is a litre people, L-I-T-R-E!!!
The same goes with metre as well; a metre is the length of some rod somewhere in France and also the SI unit for length, a meter is some sort of measuring device (like the one the gas company checks).
How lazy do you have to be to not notice that the second paragraph in the article contradicts the writeup about it?
Now I'm allergic to German cars.
I bet the inventor has a vanity license plate on his car that reads: I8URCAT
This brings new meaning to "cat on a stick"
I say bring the guy to NYC, and power a fleet of his cars for months using our high-energy subway and park rats at $0/liter!
:)
Seriously, for those of you in NYC, when you find yourself at Union Square after dark, take a few minutes to stop and observe the lovely park animals. Rats, of course. South-west corner, right by the intersection is especially active. People are walking by, not paying any attention (the NYC style), but there are whole families of rats in that corner (also not paying attention to humans - NYC style rats).
So, bring theGerman dude to NYC.... please!
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Thanks for your lengthy post. Sorry if I was not clear enough, I have nothing against Germany per se (though my Dad, does, I should say). And I am not a huge cat lover, though I do live on a hill where 10 abandoned cats wait for handouts, which perhaps resonanted a bit. Also I am very pro-alternative energy.
What I reacted to was a very nasty sense of humor. I am glad to hear it is a hoax, but it just means that the person with the nasty sense of humor is not the kind Dr. Koch but the publisher of the newspaper.
The point I attempted to make was that making an involved project of building a cat-powered car, or in this case of reporting that such a car existed, is not exactly humor at all. In fact, and it is more to the point now that we know it is a hoax, the time taken to create this story, and manipulate people into believing it, indicates a psyche that takes pleasure in causing distress to cat lovers, and perhaps also in further polarizing sentimental people against those who aren't. (It worked I believe).
You will note that we are not up to our ears in cats, which as they exist are a 100% domesticated and bred organism. Cats are invested with love, fed, excessively pampered, they live in our homes by our choice. Not like rats. The rat-powered robot I heard of in the past was gruesome but possibly a good idea. If there was a cockroach-powered robot smart enough to catch them I'd buy a dozen. A cat-powered anything can have but one purpose, since there are not enough dead cats to make an alternative fuel. The discussion of turning cats into a liquid like gasohol was a very bad piece of work in particular. Cats don't fuel cars. They may fuel your town because they get caught up in the trash somehow, though I doubt it would be a good idea to tell kids that. The only thing cats really fuel is a sadistic pleasure of a sick mind that finds the idea funny and enjoys seeing people squirm - the more sentimental the better. In this case the only winners are the sadists, and the poor geeks who have become so robotlike that they cannot imagine why a story about a German engineer liquifying members of the household to power his car is not a terrifying person to have in the neighborhood. Well thank you and I hope you understand my viewpoint.
By the way I am a U.S. citizen but have lived in Japan a long time. The economy is still a wreck thanks to oil prices. I did not know it was the law that pets were used as cattle feed, that is grotesque and you can call me sentimental if you wish. Dead pets are undoubtedly a big problem but I think the way you treat pets shows something about a society. Unfortunately in Japan, people often let their pets out to turn wild when they move, which is why I continually make friends with cats that turn up psychologically or physically abused, by the temple next to my home. I don't feed them because I don't want to see them have kittens and perpetuate this, which happened recently. Well this was an interesting subject, NOT.
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Sigh...
... um.. see #1 above.
Sigh indeed! Here we go again...
One does not expect EVERYONE here to write English properly.
1. Let's assume the guy is German or Brosnian or Lathuvian or (shudder) French.
Please cut him some slack. Could YOU speak HIS language eloquently?
2. Now if he's British- well he should jolly well be chastised.
3. If perhaps he's Australian, tie his kangaroo down,mate!
4. If Canadian, gee...some of us don't quite speak properly at times, do we, eh? Sorry!
5. If he's American,
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Sigh.
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Semantics = the meaning of each possible constituent atomic part of a sentence.
How dare those monsters, those despeakable low lifes of bonsaikitten, hurt cute little adorable kittens?! OMG!!!1 I'm gonna report them to PETA, FBI, CIA, CSI ,that'll teach them a lesson they'll neva forget! I'm in tears right now, I can't.. OMG!! This is horrible, worse than 9/11 and New Orlando combined, those utter horrendous sadists, they show no mercy it's it's I can't find words how offended I am right now! I feel could just..
FUCK!
OMG now you made me say nasty word, you'll burn in hell! You you.. OMG!
Whew, I gave it everything I got, hope it was on the level of other BK flames.. :p
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Despite everything certain safety requirements are to be placed against the prOn the one hand this is the requirements to the tightness of the plant, which is ensured by a permanent slight negative pressure connected with a safety disconnection.
Obviously machine translated. Interesting stuff. Really just recycling oil (Plastic,PVC,Tires) into diesel. I like it, kills two birds(cats?) with one stone. Landfill Reduction, Diesel Production.
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Incidentally, in most states, there's no requirement to go through a funeral home or funeral director (I know New York is an exception, incidentally), so as long as the ground is designated for burial, you have permission for digging the plot, and you go about it properly (depth of burial, etc), it's legal. Personally, I'm kind of considering ultrasonic pulverization. Basically, they dip you in liquid nitrogen, then submit you to a round of ultrasonics. You get a pile of freeze-dried human kibble that can then be directly put back in the environment as fertilizer. Although I do plan on some kind of memorial site for the sake of family who feel they must visit.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
And here I was just thinking that we'd finally solved the problem of perpetual roadkill.
Meh, no problem. Just get yourself a cookbook.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
slaida1, it wouldn't make a difference to me whether we were talking about cats, dogs, horses, sheep, birds, etc, etc, etc. The owner of the site is promoting cruelty to animals for pleasure. There's nothing honourable in that at all. To me it's the equivalent of violently bullying those who are completely unable to defend themselves.
I can't speak for others but myself I tend to enjoy life in its many forms. Life makes life worth living, therefore I will fight to protect that in the hopes of lessoning the effects of a few that don't value life, and the welfare of others, as much as I do.
It has nothing to do with fluffy little kittens and everything to do with respect for others. To place oneself in the position of others to 'see how it feels'.
Treat others as you yourself would wish to be treated.
As an aside; let's take the site's owner as a model for all society on earth and see what me may end up with after a period of time. I hope you, your family, and future offspring, enjoy the results.
You seem to have missed my two original points: It appears that Mr. Fusion wouldn't actually have anything to do with fusion and the idea of stuffing meowing felines into a gas-tank with a tiny wooden plunger designed for this purpose is more than a little funny. (but not much more)
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