Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung

AP ^ | 3-3-06 | KOZO MIZOGUCHI

[tumblindice]

"Mr. Goodwrench, my engine keeps `back-firing'."

[Lekker 1]

God I'd love to say to the ragheads : "Oh, sorry, we don't need your oil. We'd rather use COW DUNG."

It would be funnier and more ironic if we used pig dung.

[AnnoyedOne]

They experimented with recycling old dems into toilet paper, but it did not work. It made your butt stink.

[Red Badger]

Dung Cow Ping!.........

[Turbopilot]

The numbers sounded small, but actually 1.4mL out of a gram of dung is a pretty good deal. Based on that ratio, it would take about 32.5 kg of dung to make enough gas to fill my 12 gallon tank. 32.5 kg is almost exactly what 12 gallons of gas would weigh, so this conversion process must be pretty efficient (assuming they're not adding other materials). Japan alone produces enough dung for almost 15 million gallons per year, and who knows how many times that could be produced in the U.S. from cows, pigs, chickens, etc.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Bullsh*t.

[WIladyconservative]

They can have my composted manure when they pry it from my cold dead fingers . . . .

Gardeners unite!

[Designer]

In a separate experiment...extracted an aromatic ingredient of vanilla from cattle dung,

I'm sure glad it was seperate!

Remind me to never order any Japanese vanilla flavoring.

[Hoodat]

Now is the time to invest in Cattle Dung futures. Somebody better give Hillary a call.

[Flavius Josephus]

ISn't this the holy grail?

[WIladyconservative]

God I'd love to say to the ragheads : "Oh, sorry, we don't need your oil. We'd rather use COW DUNG."

I think you meant "sheet heads" . . . . .and it would be infinitely sweeter to use pork poo.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

how much energy does it take to produce the heat and pressure?

Nothing is cost free.

[Mercat]

and in other news, the South Koreans have cloned a cat.

[WIladyconservative]

Darn - you beat me to it!

[Feiny]

Gasoline & Vanilla....together at last.

[Spktyr]

That's what nuclear reactors are for. :-D

[NormsRevenge]

The extracted ingredient, vanillin, can be used as fragrance in shampoo and candles, she said.

-- now that sounds like a lot of BS if ya ask me.

would you use a product knowingly if it was extracted from dung? yyeeeee.. :-}

[AnnoyedOne]

If we can make gasoline out of bullsh*t, then we can become energy independant just off of what is generated in D.C.

[Designer]

Dung Cow Ping!.........

Hooaaa! ROTFLMAO !!!

Good one!

[Always Right]

Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted 1.4 milliliters (0.042 ounces) of gasoline from every 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of cow dung by applying high pressure and heat.

This is the work of satan. It takes exactly 666 pounds of crap to make 1 gallon of gas.