[tallhappy]

This is rather an extraordinary story that I think merits breaking news.

A lot of puns and bad jokes possibe, I know, possible, but, if this is true ...

[Flavius Josephus]

ISn't this the holy grail?

[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.

[Feiny]

Gasoline & Vanilla....together at last.

[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.. :-}

[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.

[Feiny]

Gasoline & Vanilla....together at last.

[Feiny]

Sorry for the double post.....not sure what happened...delayed reaction? I am full of gas.

[DeFault User]

applying a 30-atmosphere pressure and heat of up to 300 degrees Celsius (572 Fahrenheit)

Heating up crude oil smells bad enough, but that refinery sure is going to make Japan a stinkhole.

[DTogo]

Japan is certainly "energy poor" but it's not "cow rich" either.

Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[CommandoFrank]

Scientists in energy-poor Japan said Friday they have found a new source of gasoline — cattle dung.

"You've got to be $hitting me...."

[mrmargaritaville]

big deal-get back to me when he can make chicken salad out of chicken. . . never mind.

[hawkaw]

The thing I am trying to wrap my mind around is this making of gasoline taking more or less energy to make?

[IamConservative]

I can convert Taco Bell food, a well known sh** substitute, into methane. Filling up my pickup is bit tricky though.

[absolootezer0]

thought they were already making fuel outta rice?

[1stFreedom]

BULLSHIT!

[1stFreedom]

BULLSHIT! ROFL

[WideGlide]

This technology is nothing new. The DemoKrat Party has been running on Bull$hit for decades.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Does no one care how this may make the cows feel? Can we just assume we have the right to their dung? /peta ramble

[TheLion]

Don't forget all that methane going to waste!