Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car 614
Kelmar writes "CNN is running a story about how a German inventor has found a way to power a car using dead cats. Yes you read that right. According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter. Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are saying that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany."
Other pet-based products (Score:5, Funny)
- Greg
Re:Other pet-based products (Score:5, Funny)
How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"? (Score:5, Funny)
Petrol Direct [petroldirect.com] are the answer to the UK's rising fuel prices - cheap fuel by post, with innovative biofuel products too.
Check out Petrel(TM) [petroldirect.com] a fuel source made from a mixture of seabird guano, combined with the rendered down, fermented and then distilled corpses of a variety of common gulls, albatrosses and terns.
And "Vin Diesel" - Made from the foulest and most undrinkable European wines
Marvellous.
Re:Fuel Lobby? (Score:3, Interesting)
Or maybe the whole country got stinking drunk for a year and didn't drive at all, thereby saving gas.
Re:How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh SHIT! I'm an American who drives a Suzuki.
Wait, it says "GEO" on the back, am I OK?
Re:How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"? (Score:3, Interesting)
Petrol lead is less toxic than benzene and the dozens of other chemicals that were added to unleaded petrol to replace the lead.
License Plates (Score:5, Funny)
I8URCAT
Re:License Plates (Score:5, Funny)
I8URPSY
just a personal preference...
Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Informative)
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?
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Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Funny)
Now I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like ;-)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Funny)
damned brain-eatin' birds
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Funny)
Chicken Shit (Score:3, Funny)
Er, that'd be shit, Jaw. I wouldn't recommend investigating it too closely in volume, but maybe that's just me.
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory "From Dusk Till Dawn" Quote (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Informative)
The Bild is Germanys largest tabloid and is well known for not always reporting overly accurate, to put it mildly.
That said, this guy seems to be making quite some waves here in Germany. At least I remember seeing him on TV lately, talking about his invention.
And if his claims are true, this really could prove to be a very useful invention, especially with the recent develpements in oil prices.
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Interesting)
I quote: "Flying Saucer Shot Down Over Russia"
Yes, what's probably the most popular publication in Germany is seriously trying to tell us that the Russians have taken down an UFO.
The BILD's "articles" (which usually take up about as much space as the headlines) are varying in quality between grotesque oversimplification, blunt populism, sheer nonsense lacking any kind of relation to the real world and a mix of the above.
I'd recommend only using it as toilet paper but that'd probably make your ass dumber.
The scary thing about the BILD is that many people are actually relying on it for their daily news. I don't even want to think about how the upcoming elections will be affected by people making their decisions based on the bullshit written in this rag. (Note: I don't want to insult actual bovine excrements by comparing them to BILD articles.)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:3, Interesting)
Alternatives (Score:5, Insightful)
"In theory".
Funerals? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Funerals? (Score:3, Informative)
20 gallons from a 250lb carcass/cadaver? That sounds like an incredibly high number. I think you'd be really lucky to get five.
Seriously, if you were to "liquefy" remains immediately upon death, pour them into jugs, I don't think you could get 20 gallons. Now if you're talking about cooking to render out the oils and fats, you'd better cut out at least 70% of the non-bio-diesel product.
(If the poster's goal was to be funny, it was lost on other moderators and myself. If it was to b
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:3, Insightful)
I know I certainly wouldn't mind (my own) remains being used. Better than being buried and eaten by worms.
Bad joke ahead (Score:4, Funny)
Mind you, the Brits had a car called a Morris Minor. It's nickname was the "moggie". Is this the same thing?
Re:Bad joke ahead (Score:2)
Did you say something about :CueCat jokes? Let me dig into the archive here; I think I can find a few....
Does anyone know? (Score:3, Funny)
I know I'll get modded down for this, it was a joke. But then again some people have had their sense of humour surgically removed.
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh I don't know. I've found them quite useful for my quantum mechanics experiments. What I do is I leave the cat in a box for a week and see if it's dead or alive when I take it out. Sure all 1000 experiments have resulted in death for the cat, but I'm not convinced that this isn't a statistical anomaly. I'll kill another 1000 cats if I have to!
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh come on (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:3, Insightful)
Time to bring out a new Jag (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Time to bring out a new Jag (Score:5, Funny)
Every time you masturbate... (Score:5, Funny)
Woohoo! We can now masturbate AND power our car with the results!
*grabs a box of tissues*
Re:Every time you masturbate... (Score:2)
Is there nothing that can be solved by killing more kittens?
and cnn falls for it, too (Score:5, Informative)
Message on their website (Score:2)
(The news currently spread in the German media that Dr. Christian Koch processes cat-cadavers into diesel-fuel is absolutely wrong and has no connection whatsoever to reality. Judicial measures against these accusations have been taken
Re:and cnn falls for it, too (Score:5, Informative)
"IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The claim spreaded by German media that Dr. Christian Koch is producing Diesel fuel from dead cats is entirely wrong and are entirey unrealistic.
Legal steps have already been taken to counter these claims."
This is ridiculous... Koch's firm simply introduced methods to produce Diesel fuel from waste oil, plastic waste, old plants, sewage sludge, ordinary household garbage and cadavers (which *surprise* could also be run-over cats!).
Tsss... tabloids...
Re:and cnn falls for it, too (Score:5, Informative)
Schrodinger (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Schrodinger (Score:5, Funny)
yes he would
no he wouldnt
Re:Schrodinger would be pleased (Score:2, Funny)
Brings new meaning ...... (Score:2, Funny)
Dead animal fuel (Score:3, Interesting)
If you take BSE for instance, where tens of thousands of cows are slaughtered 'just in case' and are unfit for consumption - what if we could use those animals for fuel? Or maybe even insects or Republicans. Ridding your house of pests may fill your car up at the same time. Africa may be able sell its grasshopper plague with enough profit to buy more food.
Publicity stunt (Score:3, Insightful)
There's no reason why the fuel can't be exclusiuvely made out of less controversial (and, from a cat owner's point of view, less offensive) fuel farm animal waste products, trash and other oranic waste.
The only reason, I see, that he mentioned cats was to get on the news.
Re:Publicity stunt (Score:2)
Re:Publicity stunt (Score:3, Funny)
Soylent Gas - It's PEOPLE!
bull. (Score:2, Funny)
come on, nobody believes that bush single-handedly created the hurricane. its pretty obvious that he had some help.
Re:bull. (Score:2)
He used those UFO's they have laying around which they built with the help from the Germans engineers after WW2.
Re:Publicity stunt (Score:2, Insightful)
Reusable energy source? (Score:4, Funny)
Claim denied by Mr. Koch's company website (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Claim denied by Mr. Koch's company website (Score:2)
100% efficient (Score:3, Funny)
animal rights activists shush, this process apparently involves dead animals, so if they're dead, what will you be doing about it? Will the dead animals benefit from your actions?
In any case, many dead animals end up processed for animal food anyway.
B.
Nice checking, editors! (Score:5, Informative)
Hoax (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hoax (Score:2)
(sits back and starts munching popcorn, watching for the inevitable comedy)
Re:Hoax (Score:3, Interesting)
It is more than irresponsible for the newspaper to publish this type of story without any proof, without contacting the people involved, and so on. It might be a tabloid newspaper, but that doesn't give them the freedom to lie! It ju
English language? Hello? (Score:2)
'siting'?
To 'site' is to place something such as a building or an event on a given piece of land: 'We sited the new airport on reclaimed ground to the north of the city."
To 'cite' is to refer to a document: 'The mayor cited reports that showed that the airport was unneccessary.'
Neither word is appropriate in the context of the summary. 'Claimed' or 'asserted' would have been better.
The editor was probably trying, in an adorably muddled way, to write the word 'cite'. He didn't do very well. He should pr
Why cats? How bout family? (Score:2)
Just theoretically speaking of course..
[No subject :-) ] (Score:2)
I think we solved the oil shortage problem. Just raise cats - at something like 0.50$ a day for cat food - then make biofuel out of them...
"Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
slow newsday cnn? (Score:2)
No tiger in the tank (Score:2)
As The Register points out [theregister.co.uk], this is theoretically possible, but not planned:
Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf says he doesn't use cats after all, rather spoiling things for punsters hoping to make jokes about putting a tiger in your tank. Any old biomatter will do: old tyres, paper, textiles, plastics weeds and so on.
It then goes on: The underlying principle is fairly straightfoward: all organic material, animals and vegetables, contains fatty acids, albeit often in large involatile fat mol
Because dead cats... (Score:2)
I guess you can at least pick up fuel on the way home.
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Do remember... (Score:2)
Carcasses of dead dinosaurs.
Maybe we should put a nice picture of a smiling little dinosaur on the frontpage of the Bild, together with a phrase reading : "Dinosaurs mistreated for human cars!"
But is it good enough... (Score:2)
This needs more research (Score:2)
(*) Live Cats Pulling The Car
BILD lügt (Score:5, Informative)
Re:BILD lügt (Score:2)
I Predict... (Score:2)
come on fellas... (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't you even have a spell-check you can run on stuff before you post it to the front page? If not a programmatic spell check, how about eyeballing something for about 10 seconds? Something like "siting" should stick out like a sore thumb to you. If it doesn't, maybe you should get someone else to edit...
The Webcomic Goats predicted this... (Score:2)
Just like Back to the Future predicted! (Score:2, Interesting)
Obligatory grammar lesson... (Score:5, Informative)
Siting = choosing the location of something.
Citing = quoting a reference. I think this is what the original poster was getting at.
Sighting = seeing something.
Per liter (Score:5, Funny)
That should read "$0.30 per litter". Typical slashdot editorial laxness!
must consider taxes when comparing!! (Score:3, Insightful)
TFA says he
Which is fine, but that's a meaningless comparison. In the United States, the tax on gasoline is a huge percentage, and I've heard that in some places in Europe, up to 80% of the money you're paying at the pump goes to taxes, and as little as 20% of it goes to the actual cost of fuel. If this is true, that obliterates his factor of 5 right there.
Can anyone in Germany comment on what percentage of the money that you pay at the pump goes to taxes? One site [germany-info.org] I found indicates the tax on diesel was 47.04 euro cents per liter in 2003 and 65.45 euro cents per liter on gasoline, but the chart on that site is hard to read and unclear.
But let's just assume that figure is accurate and compare things taking into account taxes. The article says it costs him 23 euro cents to produce a liter, and that regular diesel costs 5 times that much at the pump. That means you pay about 115 euro cents at the pump. If his biodiesel were subject to the same taxes, and if it were free to store it and transport it and there were no markup at all anywhere from manufacturing all the way to retail sales, then his biodiesel would be 70 cents per liter. So, what you pay at the pump right now is only 1.6 times as much as the minimum his fuel could ever really cost if it were sold at the pump, not 5 times as much.
101 Uses for a Dead Cat. (Score:4, Interesting)
Probably came out about 20 years ago.
I guess it's outdated, now.
102 Uses for a Dead Cat?
Re:101 Uses for a Dead Cat. (Score:3, Informative)
He uses run-over cats... conflict of interest? (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps the mark II will have 'fuel scoops' fitted on the front. And if this invention is adapted for larger diesel engines as used in railway locomotives, the cow-catcher could take on a slightly different purpose.
This is why we cannot trust the media (Score:3, Insightful)
That's TWO major media outlets that did ZERO fact-checking!
And now, to prove my tinfoil hat is still working-- is it really that much of a stretch to suggest that some oil industry PR firm planted this story? Sure, I may be way off-base, but I think I've earned the right to speculate wildly considering that two major news outlets simply printed untruths.
Come on (Score:5, Informative)
The post is completely inaccurate.
Not much of a surprise here (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bild is s**t (Score:2)
The TV-Equivalent would probably be Fox News
Re:Bild is s**t (Score:4, Interesting)
Bild [t-online.de] and Sun [thesun.co.uk]
Re:Dead Animals (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, pets are killed on a daily basis [shelterreform.org] in the hundreds, at least this way we're putting them to good use.
Re:Dead Animals (Score:2)
Bild not only reported a non-story, because the guy never made diesel out of cats, nor does he intend to do, but also misquoted the Animal Rights Activists.
http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 [bildblog.de] (Sorry, only in German)
YHBTBB (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ultimate anti-karma (Score:2)
Re:Ultimate anti-karma (Score:2)
Re:Ultimate anti-karma (Score:2)
I wonder what it is about this country that brings out the worst in the human psyche? Nothing against Germany per se but I do know (from my old German girlfriend) that there are certain pathologies about analysis and logic games that thread the society.
1 - There were plenty of posts on Slashdot exposing the story as a hoax before you posted. Shame you didn
Re:Ultimate anti-karma (Score:3, Informative)
You, sir, are a sentimental idiot.
Be informed that Germany is more than Hitler, the girl that dumped you (= Hitlerish) and crazy engineers that are said to kill small furry things for fuel (= Hitlerish).
Even if Dr. Koch happens to use actual animal bodies for fuel, would you mind if it were bugs, or spiders? Do you know that in Germany it is the law to get your pet dogs'/ cats'body to a "Tierkörperverwertungsanstalt" (roughly translated "Animal corpses processing facility"), where its body is grind up
Re:Live Cats (Score:3, Insightful)
Explaining the joke just ruins it. A shame too, as I thought it was very funny.