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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?
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.
Uh, cattle are renewable.
-Peter
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.
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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.
Incidentally, so are babies. Which begs the question: why aren't we looking into babies as an alternative source of energy? I'm sure they can be melted down just as easily and I'll bet we can find plenty of willing producers.
Burning fat for heat is traditional. The Inuit have been doing it for millennia.
Burning fat for heat is traditional. The Inuit have been doing it for millennia.
Hmmn, I think America's energy problems are over.
There's a good reason for this. If you had read the article, they said that proponents of burning animal carcasses admitted that, by itself, it's a very inefficient method of heating, since so much energy has to go into raising these animals to maturity; you end up getting less energy from burning them than you did getting to that point.
However, the animals' primary use is for food, not heat. The carcasses burned are just a leftover waste product normally, so burning them for heat makes sense because otherwise the carcasses would just be trash.
Babies, unlike farm animals, aren't normally used for food. So, applying the logic above, it wouldn't make economic sense to raise them just to burn them.
I hope this answers your question.