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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.
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.
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.
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.
Pfft, we've been using dead animals to run cars for years and they've never complained before. This is nothing new ;)
Also, pets are killed on a daily basis in the hundreds, at least this way we're putting them to good use.
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?!
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.
There are already plenty of great uses for cats.
Bild and Sun
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.
...about "putting a tiger in your tank"???
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
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.
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.
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.
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
I bet the inventor has a vanity license plate on his car that reads:
I8URCAT
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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......
Did the moderator even read the first line of the article - "Inventor denies dead cat fuel story".
The post is completely inaccurate.