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Ponuh
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:33 pm 
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Inventor fuels car with dead cats


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?"

"We're going to keep an eye on this case," Apel said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/14/germany.catfuel.reut/index.html

Haha, I think this is so awesome, I had to share. What do you think? Would you fuel your car with dead cats if it would save you money?
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because then cat farms would start up, and it would break my heart thinking about people who raised cats to die just so i can drive cheaper..

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maybe if we made a alternate reality for the cats, and grew them... then it would be like a matrix... but for cats

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i fucking hate cats. This is a good idea! DOGS FOREVER! anything for 20 cents cheaper at the pump

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umm? whats so special about cats? i dont understand how a rotting corpse is any different than the next rotting corpse


use spider or something, i fucking hate spiders i cant even touch pictures of spiders im so scared of them lol
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Mintsy wrote:
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because then cat farms would start up, and it would break my heart thinking about people who raised cats to die just so i can drive cheaper..


yeah. I agree with mintsy. and...cats are too cute to be used as fuel ; ;

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heeeeerrrreeeee kitty kitty

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:O poor cats

let's just stick to those hydrogen cells they're working on :p

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Okay, i'm starting a cat breeding factory.

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i would quit my job to work at the cat farm... i want to be the guy with the hammer!! or maybe they should kill them like they do pigs... run them all on a big metal plate, then run 50,000 volts into the metal and... well i'm sure you get the idea.

is there an applicable word for cat genocide?

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Redmaige wrote:
is there an applicable word for cat genocide?


I got one, Catocide.

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this is horrible :(..
i can only imagine the cat breeding farms that would arise for this... maybe if they used dead people from morgues and things... lol

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whats a dead cat gonna do? sit in the road and rot. if you think they are sooo cute, grab a shovel and a bag, scrape the carcass off the road and take it home and scratch it behind the ears (if you can find its ears)

dead cats as fuel is a good thing! it cleans up the roads, so the sensitive people don't have to look at dead cats every half mile, and it saves money compared to gasoline.

cats in the road are like yellow lights... a good reason to accelerate.

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Gavin wrote:
maybe if we made a alternate reality for the cats, and grew them... then it would be like a matrix... but for cats



lol ok how did no one else find that funny?

This topic is unreal lol, so F'ing creepy and interesting.

I would steal all the annoying cats that live next door and use em to drive my car for the rest of my life.

I swear the person next to me is a crazy cat lady, but shes not socially retarded lol. She just has like 20 cats.

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lol Ya, Gavin's comment was pretty funny.
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In my opinion, anyone who thinks it's fine to sacrifice animals just for the luxury of driving cheaper, deserves a slow painful death.
Sorry but this disgusts me.

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the cats this guy is using are already dead.

i was just having fun with the idea... no not really. i really do want to be the guy with the hammer.

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Pirato wrote:
In my opinion, anyone who thinks it's fine to sacrifice animals just for the luxury of driving cheaper, deserves a slow painful death.
Sorry but this disgusts me.


Of course if its billions of animals dead for millions of years, that have decomposed into crude oil and natural gas, its fine. :)
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while i'm not a big fan of PETA's propaganda, you just know they'd be all over this, ha ha, and for once, i'd agree... as you can tell from my previous comment :p

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Of course if its billions of animals dead for millions of years, that have decomposed into crude oil and natural gas, its fine.


sure it is... they weren't being bred, harvested, w/e to create the gas, it was a matter of nature taking due course :p

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So at what point does it not become "nature taking course", any human involvement?

Domesticating animals is the beginning of the end of the world?

Funny, while we are different from animals, we are still part of their "nature"
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you can't tell me you don't see a problem with breeding animals simply to harvest them for fuel production..

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i would, if i also saw a problem with breeding animals for consumption. Or for entertainment.
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So at what point does it not become "nature taking course", any human involvement?

Domesticating animals is the beginning of the end of the world?

Funny, while we are different from animals, we are still part of their "nature"


an excellent question, and I honestly gotta say... you got me there, that thought didn't even occur to me.... seeing as we use non-domesticated animals for food consumption all the time (cows, pigs, etc.)

a tip of that hat, you stumped me, I don't know how to reply to that

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First off, did anyone actually go to the link and read it? haha. What Ponuh posted said the guy *said* he used dead cats, but in the link it said he just used garbage, and it was the newspaper that implied/theorized you could use dead cats.

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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.


I think you guys are missing the whole point either way - he wanted to use already existing, otherwise worthless materials, and turn them into something useful: fuel. It would be stupid and kind of counter to his purpose to raise cats for the sole reason of using them for fuel. O_o;; Think Mr. Fusion.
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omg you read the article, cheater.

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