Inventor turns dead cats into diesel

[Solitaire]

Ananova Article

A German inventor says he's found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats.

Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers. They are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter. He said the resulting "high quality bio-diesel" costs just 15 pence per litre.

Koch said the cadaver of a fully grown cat can produce 2.5 litres of fuel - meaning around 20 cats are needed for a full tank. He said: "I tank my car with my own diesel mixture and have driven it for 105,000 miles without any problems." Annelise Krauss of the Dresden Animal Protection Association blasted Koch's new diesel though, saying: "This is as bad as experimenting on animals."

Finally someone does something about high gas prices!

 

[Ryokan]

And it makes your engine purr!

 

[Hutch]

Indeed, now if he can only do something about the live ones.....




I am so dead when I see kittynh, kitten, Darat, and others at TAM4

 

[Cleon]

Indeed, now if he can only do something about the live ones.....

Hutch. Hutch. Hutch...

That's what Chinese restaurants are for.

 

[Ed]

A possible joint venture with PETA, perhaps?

 

[Grammatron]

Ahem
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9339530/

BERLIN - A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.

Christian Koch, an inventor and patent holder of the “KDV 500” that he said produces high quality fuel, said he can transform waste products such as paper, rubbish and plastic materials into fuel.

But Koch, 55, said there was no truth to stories published in Bild newspaper on Tuesday and Wednesday that suggested he used dead cats as part of the mix for his organic diesel fuel.
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“I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish,” Koch told Reuters.

“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.”

Bild on Tuesday wrote a headline: “German inventor can turn cats into fuel -- for a tank he needs 20 cats.” The paper on Wednesday followed up with a story entitled: “Can you really make fuel out of cats?”

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.

The author of the story said Koch had never told him directly that he had used dead cats as the story implied.

 

[Tanja]

I read in a newspaper today (forgot which one, maybe even Metro) that a guy somewhere in the UK is making diesel out of Kebab fat.

 

[Skeptic]

Gives the old "Put a tiger in your tank" Exxon commercial a whole new meaning, that's for damn sure.

 

[CapelDodger]

I read in a newspaper today (forgot which one, maybe even Metro) that a guy somewhere in the UK is making diesel out of Kebab fat.

People have been driving on used chip-fat for years around these parts. The Revenue Men have had to step in - duty was being avoided, and they hate that.

 

[CapelDodger]

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.

I've been turning them into methane and compost for years. As to Hutch's

Indeed, now if he can only do something about the live ones.....

they're easily converted to dead ones. The cost is minimal - snare, axe-handle, compost-bin. Hardly any running costs, and a modicum of free entertainment.