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Inventor: I never used dead cats for fuel
Yahoo.news ^ | 09-15-05 | reuters

Posted on 09/14/2005 8:39:46 PM PDT by ChristianDefender

BERLIN (Reuters) - 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 Tuesday and Wednesday that suggested he used dead cats as part of the mix for his organic diesel fuel.

"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 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.

The website 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.

"I drive my normal diesel-powered car with this mixture," Koch is quoted saying in Bild, next to a large picture of a kitten. "I have gone 170,000 km (106,000 miles) without a problem."


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1 posted on 09/14/2005 8:39:48 PM PDT by ChristianDefender
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To: ChristianDefender

You get more miles per dog than you do per cat.


2 posted on 09/14/2005 8:42:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: HiTech RedNeck

maybe burrying animals and people and turn them all into crude oil.


3 posted on 09/14/2005 8:47:19 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: HiTech RedNeck
LOL! (How Come?) ;)
4 posted on 09/14/2005 8:47:46 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle)
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To: ChristianDefender
CATS: WHAT YOU SAY!!
5 posted on 09/14/2005 8:48:09 PM PDT by RichInOC ("The coffee is strong at Cafe du Monde, the doughnuts are too hot to touch..." Save the Big Greasy!)
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To: ChristianDefender
The KDV 500


6 posted on 09/14/2005 8:48:27 PM PDT by Conservative Firster
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Doesn't your MPD vary per breed? I had a Golden Retriever that became gassier as she go older..........bless her heart.


7 posted on 09/14/2005 8:48:29 PM PDT by metalcor
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To: ChristianDefender

His advanced research vas no doubt based upon ze werk of Docter Verner wilhem von Blucher, a scientist who spearheaded projects at numerous concentration camps, developing alternative sources of energy vile above all implementing ze final solution for ze fuhrer. Sig heil!


8 posted on 09/14/2005 8:50:31 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: ChristianDefender

One of ze most useful biproducts of zis process is a very effective type of soap....


9 posted on 09/14/2005 8:52:35 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: ChristianDefender
Inventor: I never used dead cats for fuel

Now there's a headline you don't see every day...

10 posted on 09/14/2005 8:53:05 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: Conservative Firster

Rube ? is that you ?


11 posted on 09/14/2005 8:53:31 PM PDT by stylin19a (In golf, some are long, I'm "Lama Long")
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To: ChristianDefender
Inventor: I never used dead cats for fuel

Waste not want not.

12 posted on 09/14/2005 8:53:47 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: ChristianDefender

< monty python > It's no good coming home to a dead cat! < /monty python >


13 posted on 09/14/2005 8:54:54 PM PDT by ChefKeith ( If Diplomacy worked, then we would be sitting here talking...)
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To: ChristianDefender
Too bad, finally a good use for those creatures.
14 posted on 09/14/2005 8:54:57 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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To: ChristianDefender
 

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15 posted on 09/14/2005 8:55:38 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko
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To: ChristianDefender
A TIGER IN YOUR TANK
16 posted on 09/14/2005 8:55:51 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: ChristianDefender

"Here kitty, kitty..."


17 posted on 09/14/2005 8:55:53 PM PDT by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and you will find the face of Islam...)
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To: HawaiianGecko

I got that book for my Dad-----1976? Geez....


18 posted on 09/14/2005 9:00:00 PM PDT by metalcor
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To: ChristianDefender

Wonder when the first catoline stations start popping up?


19 posted on 09/14/2005 9:03:16 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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"I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish," Koch told Reuters

...this method would never work in Jersey. See we have to haul our trash hundreds of miles over congested highways in thousands of "municipal waste" trucks driven by illegals to another state so we can pay them. Don't these people who come up with ways to reduce waste realize how much impact an idea like that would have on local crime families? Sheeesh...besides I though dead cats were stuffed and used for table legs...I saw a drawing..I did I did.

Doogle

20 posted on 09/14/2005 9:06:19 PM PDT by Doogle (8th AF...4077thTFW....408thMMS....Ubon Thailand "69"..Night Line Delivery ..AMMO)
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