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Norfolk Town's Schools First To Be Heated By Burning Cattle
A "trailblazing" Norfolk town has begun heating many of its buildings - including the schools - by burning oil made from melted-down cow and pig carcasses. The strategy is described as "equal or lower in carbon footprint than natural gas." Should schools have to offer vegetarian heating?
What seriously could go wrong!
The most effed up thing I've seen in a while. Who in their right mind would think this is better than wind or solar power?
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Nom Nom Num, melted cow, Yummmy!
Granted, this is idle, but the sensationalist headlines are getting old.
Caus, you know, making oil from slaughter by-products is pretty much the same as "burning cattle for heat"
burn mor chikin
I'm sure PETA will have an orgasmic heart-attack or two for this one.
Should schools have to offer vegetarian heating?
You want to heat your school by burning vegetarians? You people are sick! Sick I tell you! Sick!
Next you'll be telling me that soylent green is people. Yeah, sure, like the government would let that happen.
It's a wonderful leap forward in green technology. By eliminating the sources of methane gas, the world gets a lot greener.
Once you can get over the sound of all the shrieking cows.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
And I suspect we always will.
And lots of the parts will only be eaten by Anthony Boudain and such and as such we will cow parts to dispose of.
And our heating/power systems are geared to use hydrocarbons.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
I thought biodiesel and such was as green as it gets.
Cold-pressed cow sounds like a renewable source of hydrocarbons.
...at first, I'd assumed it was a truncated headline, with the word "dung" left off of the end.
That would be nothing new at all, anyway.
How is that not natural gas?
Which begs the question: why aren't we looking into babies as an alternative source of energy?
I saw a movie about that.
as dr. liposuction diesel:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/21/fat-fuel-biodiesel-tech-sciences-cz_pcb_1222fatfuel.html
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I mean that one just seems too easy.
Shouldn't that be pure and udder nonsense?
When you consider the energy required to grow a fat pig or cow, how could this ever be practical?
It takes thousands of pounds of feed grain to raise a big pig or cow. Only a small percentage of that energy gets captured as oil or fat.
Then you need to expend more energy to melt out that oil or fat.
I suspect it would be about ten times more efficient if they just burned the feed grain in their furnaces.
"Equal or lower in carbon footprint than natural gas."
Is someone here trying to tell us that prepping farmland, sewing and growing crops on it, feeding it to cattle which then ist slaughtered and/or dies of natural causes and blended into a pulp in order to get oil out of it has a lower carbon footprint than natural gas? And what about turning just the crops into biogas and skipping the cattle all together? Is this cattle-industry PR for the extra-stupid, or what?
Lower carbon footprint ... Give me a f*cking break! Everybody with more that 2 braincells knows that modern livestock agriculture has about the worst eco-balance you can get, apart from maybe burning coal for electricity or something. From entire state-sized patches of rainforest being uprooted each year for argentiniean beefsteak and Mc-Donalds Burgers, south-american soy being shipped halfway across the globe to austria to be fed to their cattle while the people there are starving all the way to long-chained uber-pesticides for chowcrop monocultures that seep into the groundwater and polute the entire foodchain for decades to come, industrial mass livestock is one of the cornerstones of our current enviromental problems and ought to be taxed heavyly worldwide. 30% VAT on every livestock - dead or alive - crossing international borders just to cover the eco-balance is what we really need. I strongly suspect the linked article to be some PR rubbish launched by a meat industry in recession.
Bottom line: Complete and utter bullshit. Mod accordingly and move along.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
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what goes around, comes around, sooner or later. and it grows. if it comes later, its impact is bigger due to cause-effect chains, if it comes sooner, it may come back as it went.
the relevance ? well. our current civilization has become an increasingly brutal civilization ... think and imagine.
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Oh, wait, I thought you said Burning Castle.
Never mind.
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I used to live in Norfolk, Virginia, and I never thought they would have resorted to this.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
If we get PETA to turn against Greenpeace I can sit back comfortably in my bovine heated palace and enjoy. Brilliant!
Since most vegetarians are skinny and frail, I don't think they'd burn long enough to really be efficient
Mary had a little lamb.
Her father shot it dead.
She took it with her to school next day.
And you all know the rest...
And after you melt the cow can you cast it into a new cow?
We need a god of evolution to make cows which burn better. Someone contact Ponder Stibbons.
I can throw myself at the ground, and miss.
From entire state-sized patches of rainforest being uprooted each year for argentiniean beefsteak and Mc-Donalds Burgers,
Do you have a source for the statement that McDonalds uses rainforest meat? I would be interested to hear.
Maybe your post can be modded accordingly to the evidence you provide.
1. encourage everyone to becaome obese - produce more fat and shorten their life span.
2. burn the bodies to create energy
3. profit!
I know, I know, this is Slashdot, but you really need to read articles before commenting on them, because /. article summaries, are, as a rule, always incorrect in some important detail (yes, hopeless, I admit, and I also admit to making the same mistake in the past, but. . .).
From the fine article:
Nobody is suggesting that it makes sense to raise livestock exclusively for fuel use. What they are proposing is using the millions of gallons of waste fat and oil created as a byproduct of food and leather production worldwide, every year, as a fuel source. This is, really, a very ancient idea. Almost all peoples around the world (except those few ethnic groups, such as Hindus, that may have been almost exclusively vegetarian) used the fats and oils from the animals they used for food and hide, as a source of light and heat - whale blubber, bison fat, caribou fat, etc. have been rendered into lamp oils and candles for thousands of years.
But, it's true that this is not really a 'solution', because there is not enough waste oil to provide all of the heat that is necessary for buildings in cold climates the world 'round. However, it does make sense to use those waste products to the extent that they can be, to heat some buildings.
Simple explanation. The article does not advocate the raising of cattle for purposes of generating heat - it is simply utilizing waste that already exists. This WASTE is renewable in a manner of speaking i.e. it is the by-product of already occurring practices. Instead of sending the left-overs to a rendering facility for full homogenization, they are using the leftovers to make heat. Instead of a landfill feast for sea gulls, we can generate something useful instead of more trash. And considering that biomass that is put into the landfills, regardless of how biodegradable the material is, will sit for decades unchanged (See National Geographic's article some time back where they dug up a 15 year old clump of lettuce from a landfill that was in no significant way degraded).
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The secondary benefit is that instead of the smell of burning coal down-wind from the plant, you have the smell of hamburgers
i said that the civilization grew increasingly more brutal, and you actually spoke against this but actually supported it ?
that being said, brutality context here is not limited to wars and brutality in between mankind.
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freeze dry in liquid nitrogen, use the resulting powder as fertilizer. wrote a diary a few years back:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/11/6/0016/23536
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That school is SO metal!!
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No matter how thin you slice it, its still baloney.