sgraber
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Cats as fuel alternative. Finally, a decent use for cats!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/14/germany.catfuel.reut/index.html
Quote directly from CNN article:
"BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German inventor has angered animal rights activists with his answer to fighting the soaring cost of fuel -- dead
cats.
Christian Koch, 55, from the eastern county of Saxony, told Bild newspaper that his organic diesel fuel -- a homemade blend of garbage, run-over cats
and other ingredients -- is a proven alternative to normal consumer diesel.
"I drive my normal diesel-powered car with this mixture," Koch said. "I have gone 170,000 km (106,000 miles) without a
problem."
The Web site of Koch's firm, "Alphakat GmbH", says his patented "KDV 500" machine can produce what he calls the
"bio-diesel" fuel at about 23 euro cents (30 cents) a liter, which is about one-fifth the price at petrol stations now.
Koch said around 20 dead cats added into the mix could help produce enough fuel to fill up a 50-liter (11 gallon) tank.
But the president of the German Society for the Protection of Animals, Wolfgang Apel, said using dead cats for fuel was illegal.
"There's no danger for cats and dogs in Germany because this practice is outlawed in Germany," Apel told Bild on Wednesday in a
story entitled "Can you really make fuel out of cats?"
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I can picture a 'Soilent Green' future where when your useful life has ended, in addition to donating your organs to science, your remains
are taken to the local bio-fuel company.... 
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 05:37 PM |
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Shame on him I love cats I do
NOT
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mookaloid
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 07:19 PM |
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I'm struggling to find a better use for them myself.
After all they are Bu**er all use for anything else - except digging up and cr*pping in everyone elses garden but their owners, killing small but very
attractive and pleasant garden birds, leaving cat hair all over the furniture, making me sneeze......
Rant rant rant.......
Mark
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DorsetStrider
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 08:02 PM |
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While I have no particular love for cats...... could I use my extensive bug collect in place of the cats? I've got them all over my
windscreen!
bugs that is....not cats
Who the f**K tightened this up!
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smart51
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 08:56 PM |
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Fantastic. I hate cats and we have an infestation of them here. How many miles per cat can you get. Does it make your engine scream like a startled
cat? The only good thing about cats is the noise they make if you give them a chinese burn. I'm still looking for a catapult that will fire
real cats but mincing them and using them for fuel is almost as good.
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Liam
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 10:13 PM |
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WOW!! All you'd then need is a photo/toy of a mouse and a one way flap into your fuel tank/mincer, park your car in alleys, and you'd
have the worlds first self-refueling car!!
Liam
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Benzine
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 11:08 PM |
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Cats > Dogs. Fact.
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mad4x4
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| posted on 15/9/05 at 05:34 AM |
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Do they specifically have to be DEAD?
Scot's do it better in Kilts.
MK INDY's Don't Self Centre Regardless of MK Setting !
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marktigere1
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| posted on 15/9/05 at 08:25 AM |
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Good job I'm a Tiger not a cat then
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clbarclay
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| posted on 15/9/05 at 11:20 AM |
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This talk of feline fuel brings one or two queries to mind.
1. Do you need a cat-alytic converter?
2. Will this fuel work in a Locost, MK, Westfield etc, or do you need a ...........
Cat-erham?
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