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Inventor fuels car with dead cats
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| 9/15/2005
| Staff
Posted on 01/08/2007 11:05:18 AM PST by Red Badger
This was both just too sad and very bizzare not to share here:
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.
TOPICS: Germany
KEYWORDS: biodiesel; cat; cats; deadcats; deadfeline; diesel; feline; herekittykitty; kitty; kittycat
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Kinda old, but.........
To: Red Badger
Well, I guess there are 102 uses now.
To: sully777; Fierce Allegiance; vigl; Cagey; Abathar; A. Patriot; B Knotts; getsoutalive; ...
Biodiesel wierdo knock!>;^/....
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:06:54 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
...but what? Still worth it because posting the article will p*$$ off catlovers?
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:07:11 AM PST
by
Fawn
(NEVER GO TO 'APPLIANCE KING' IN BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA--THEY SCAM YOU!!!)
To: Red Badger
Heh, heh. The Europeans' solution to global warming... No wonder Kyoto isn't working.
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:07:35 AM PST
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Brilliant
To: Fawn
The Cat lovers? I'm a cat lover. But dead is dead.........
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:08:13 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
He should be more worried about the cats than the animal rights activists.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:09:09 AM PST
by
Fawn
(NEVER GO TO 'APPLIANCE KING' IN BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA--THEY SCAM YOU!!!)
To: Red Badger
Just listen to that engine purr!
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:09:23 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Voted Free Republic's Most Eligible Bachelor: 2006. Love them Diebold machines.)
To: Red Badger
Talk about putting a tiger in your tank.
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:09:50 AM PST
by
irishtenor
(Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
To: Fawn
Sungirl?
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:09:58 AM PST
by
Cagey
To: Joe 6-pack
I was waiting for that!......
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:10:10 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Constitution Day; Slings and Arrows
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: mainepatsfan
Outrage over using DEAD cats for biofuel, but probably nary a peep on growing human embryos and destroying them for lab research.....
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:11:20 AM PST
by
duckbutt
( If you let a smile be your umbrella, then most likely your butt will get soaking wet.)
To: Red Badger
20 dead cats for 11 gallons? That's a lot of cats.
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:12:24 AM PST
by
CindyDawg
(May your dreams be big and your worries be small (RF))
To: Red Badger
Dead cats?! What's the problem?
Now, LIVE cats - THAT would be an interesting story!
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:12:42 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
To: CindyDawg
Well, there is a whole dead cat in every bar of Dead Cat soap!
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:13:51 AM PST
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RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
To: Red Badger
I wonder if dead Possums would be more PC.
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:14:13 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
To: CindyDawg
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posted on
01/08/2007 11:15:30 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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