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."

Comments

Other pet-based products

[gbulmash]

How about fuel from dog farts? I know a Labrador Retriever who could probably fuel a moped with his daily output.

- Greg

Re:Other pet-based products

[mrjb]

Best of all, you won't need to bring the dog, cause he's only needed to take the blame :)

Re:Other pet-based products

[Anonymous Coward]

SOYLENT GAS IS PEOPLE! IS PEOPLE! which would not surprise me, considering the source.

Bad joke ahead

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

[aussie_a]

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.

Finally!

[jcr]

A use for a cat? Who could have imagined it?

-jcr

Re:Finally!

[aussie_a]

A use for a cat? Who could have imagined it?

Oh I don't know. I've found them quite useful for my quantum mechanics experiments. What I do is I leave the cat in a box for a week and see if it's dead or alive when I take it out. Sure all 1000 experiments have resulted in death for the cat, but I'm not convinced that this isn't a statistical anomaly. I'll kill another 1000 cats if I have to!

Re:Finally!

[Flounder]

Fill the box with urine and there's a check with your name on it at the National Endowment of the Arts.

Re:Finally!

[mrogers]

It's a little-known fact that Schrödinger's famous thought experiment concerning a cat was actually carried out, using grad students (they're cheaper than cats). He locked them in a tiny box where they were either awarded funding, or not, but he didn't know which until he opened the box three years later and they were all dead. The experiment is regularly repeated in science departments around the world.

Time to bring out a new Jag

[funkdancer]

That nice purring sound of the engine is strictly no coincidence.

Re:Time to bring out a new Jag

[kalayq]

I call it the Catapult.

Every time you masturbate...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten."
Woohoo! We can now masturbate AND power our car with the results!
*grabs a box of tissues*

Schrodinger

[Emeye]

...woulld be pleased.

Re:Schrodinger

[Phil246]

no he wouldnt
yes he would
no he wouldnt
... :)

Brings new meaning ......

[Anonymous Coward]

... to the phrase "catalytic converter".

Reusable energy source?

[Mostly a lurker]

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.

100% efficient

[toQDuj]

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.

Oh come on

[commodoresloat]

There are already plenty of great uses for cats.

Re:Publicity stunt

[Progman3K]

>Gee, why not state that he's making them from human corpses?

Soylent Gas - It's PEOPLE!

bull.

[hamburger lady]

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.

Re:Inventor misquoted?

[m4dm4n]

Slashdot trolls and lawyers. Now there is a good machine to own.

Anyone remember the Esso advert...

[pandrijeczko]

...about "putting a tiger in your tank"???

Re:Inventor misquoted?

[black6host]

Not to mention the inroads the internet has been making into areas not yet connected. More net users, more porn, more dead kittens :)

How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"?

[Elphin]

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.

Re:How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"?

[Skynyrd]

ust in case you are an American, or possibly drive a car made by Suzuki, we will spell the purpose of Petrol Direct out to you in simple terms. This is a spoof. A parody. We do not sell petrol or any other fuels, and certainly not plutonium or antimatter. Sorry. This site is strictly for laughs only.

Oh SHIT! I'm an American who drives a Suzuki.

Wait, it says "GEO" on the back, am I OK?

Re:Alternatives

[worf_mo]

One could presumably also use the remains of other creatures, such as politicians, lawyers, and estate agents.

I don't hate my car enough to expect it to handle that.

Re:Inventor misquoted?

[jawtheshark]

dead chicken leftovers

Now I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like ;-)

Re:Alternatives

[magpie]

Do we have to wait till they're dead though?

Re:Inventor misquoted?

[bladesjester]

Just as long as you don't ask to see the undead chicken leftovers.... *shudders*

damned brain-eatin' birds

Per liter

[StrawberryFrog]

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!

Re:Inventor misquoted?

[wertarbyte]

Just call it Soylent Fuel.

Re:Inventor misquoted?

[indifferent children]

McNuggets

License Plates

[dsginter]

I bet the inventor has a vanity license plate on his car that reads:

I8URCAT

Re:License Plates

[foniksonik]

If it was me I'd rather have the plate:

I8URPSY

just a personal preference...

Wake me up when there's a Kennedy car...

[DerProfi]

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.

erm units please

[tim_abell]

Shouldn't that be 30 cents per litter?

(I'm english, it's spelt litre here, so I mis-read the article anyway)

Obligatory "From Dusk Till Dawn" Quote

[SeanDuggan]

From IMDB:
Chet Pussy: Pussy, pussy, pussy! All pussy must go. At the Titty Twister we're slashing pussy in half! This is a pussy blow out! Make us an offer on our vast selection of pussy! We got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy, hot pussy, cold pussy, wet pussy, tight pussy, big pussy, bloody pussy, fat pussy, hairy pussy, smelly pussy, velvet pussy, silk pussy, Naugahyde pussy, snappin' pussy, horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy, fake pussy! If we don't have it, you don't want it!

Chicken Shit

[rjstanford]

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.

Re:Inventor misquoted?

[blake3737]

Calista Flockhart

He uses run-over cats... conflict of interest?

[Ed Avis]

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.

Not much of a surprise here

[wcrowe]

I've always felt there was some kind of relationship between cars and pussy.

Great for the nekobus

[BlueQuark]

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