Researchers Make Gasoline From Cow Dung

McDrewbie writes "Yahoo! News has an article about Japanese researchers extracting a small amount of gasoline from 3.5oz of cow dung. The process uses application of high heat and pressure. Hopefully, when more information is released, we can find out how much energy it takes to produce this gasoline and how energy efficient the process is."

Comments

Bullshit!

[LiquidCoooled]

Its amazing what scientists can create.
I wonder if we could just connect this directly up to the chairs in SCO's offices and solve the worlds energy problems!

We tried that in Husbandry 104

[BadAnalogyGuy]

But the cows kept getting really sick from all the gasoline we were feeding them.

Oil companies?

[merikari]

Let's see the oil companies trying to shus this pile of steaming cow dung.

That didn't come out right.

Finally, managers can become useful.

[Vengeance]

'Cause with all the BS they're spewing, I think we've solved the world's energy problems.

So what?

[pleumann]

Slashdot makes articles from cow dung all the time.

holy shit

[Anonymous Coward]

this sounds quite good, but there was a better one in Germany:
Some months ago (last september) one media misunderstood an invention of a german engineer who found a way to recycle certain sorts of refuse to diesel and claimed (BILD claimed, not the engineer...), he would do so with dead cats.

The original "news" seems no longer to be available, but bildblog, a blog specialized in doing meta-news on that particular media (no way to call it "newspaper", it's only just crap...) featured an article on that one:

http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791

Blues Brothers

[daemonenwind]

Donald: Jake ain't lyin', though. We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Tom: But we'll never get that fat sound again, not without some more horns. We'll never get Mr. Fabulous.
Jake: Where is he?
Murph: Forget it. Mr Fabulous is the top Maitre D at the Chez Paul. He's pullin' down six bills a week.
Steve: Yeah. And Matt Murphy went up and got himself married.

Re:Makes Sense

[jejones]

Great I can't wait till I can buy me a Bottle of Selsun Poo...

Well, at least it won't be sham poo... it'll be real poo!

solution to another eternal dilemma as well

[Fennario]

from TFA:

"In a separate experiment revealing another unusual business potential for cow dung, another group of researchers has successfully extracted an aromatic ingredient of vanilla from cattle dung, said Miki Tsuruta, a Sekisui Chemical Co. spokeswoman. The extracted ingredient, vanillin, can be used as fragrance in shampoo and candles, she said."

The thing about these Japanese corporate researchers is, they all think that their shit doesn't stink.

Much cows = Many beefs

[TheGhostOfDerrida]

"If we tried to use it instead of normal oil, we'd have to cover the entire earth, actually more land, with cattle

Yes, but one of the better side-effects of such large scale cattle farming would porterhouse at about forty cents a pound (U.S.)

(by the way, I just made that price up; there wasn't any real calculation concerning real statistics and/or numbers of any sort involved. It was a joke. Porterhouse is fine cut of beef, and, as such, tends to be a little pricier. Using the logic of "More cattle = more beef = greater supply of porterhouse = lower price", I was able to pull a low number out of my ass. I hope you're all happy, I think I just killed any humor this joke may have had. But, because every time I make a joke on this site somebody feels the need to try to get deep about either the failings-of-man-as-a-whole or the-lies-that-science-is-made-from, I thought I'd try one last attempt at saving them the trouble. It's only a joke. It's only ever a joke. If you comment on a joke, it should either be a comment taking the joke further, or telling the comedian that they aren't funny. One should not respond to a joke on a forum such as this with a deep and mostly unrelated philosophic dialogue about two or three of the words used. That's bad forum ettiquete. Trespassers will be violated, violators will be shot, offer void in texas as I don't believe in texas, and please see official gamepiece for complete rules and restrictions that may apply in my/your/his or her area. If you would like to request the rules and restrictions in French, German, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, or Serbo-Croatian, please send self addressed stamped envelope taped to the front of a postcard with a written request for aforementioned info to the address provided. Thanks for playing.)
~ken

Re:Won't all the methane from the cows be worse?

[I_Heat_Sexylaid]

Then again, Brazil isn't run by millionaires who are more interested in increasing their millions than actually imporoving things.

Some really important things to keep in mind here:

Wealth == theft

Wealth == myopia, e.g., no one with wealth has any vested interest in improving things, to retain the wealth

Poverty == virtue

Finally, even if beset by wealth ourselves, our poverty-born virtue would withstand the onslaught of that bad, bad, capital.

Go, Marxism!

Re:What is new?

[ameline]

Wouldn't it be more efficient to run the vodka straight into the fuel tanks instead of through a bunch of swedes?

(sorry for the flame bait :-)

(BTW congrats on the gold in mens hocky -- your team deserved it -- they played magnificently)

Re: What is new?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's a bioga?