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."
Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Informative)
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?
and cnn falls for it, too (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Claim denied by Mr. Koch's company website (Score:4, Informative)
Nice checking, editors! (Score:5, Informative)
Hoax (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Inventor misquoted? (Score:5, Informative)
YHBTBB (Score:3, Informative)
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:Inventor misquoted? (Score:2, Informative)
BILD lügt (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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 to "Tiermehl" ("Animal wheat") that used to be fed to farm animals before BSE? Now it is burnt for electricity. Yes. that is electricity out of little kitty! BTW, this law is to protect people from diseases of too many corpses laying around.
What would be the problem in not processing animal cadavers to electricity, but to fuel? Facing energy costs that would feel near to insane to you US guys (we are paying 1,50 per litre for fuel), I greatly appreciate using alternative fuel systems. And the cat population tends to grow! No energy problems for the next few centuries.
BTW: Actually Dr. Koch uses garbage for fuel. The claim he used cats is made by a german tabliod that is probably funded by our fellow oil companies. Wrecking ones inventions for profit by false claims that outrage the public idiot is quite common in ye ol'de europe.
This message was typed for your convinience right in the ex-Third Reich.
Re:and cnn falls for it, too (Score:5, Informative)
It's fake... (Score:1, Informative)
Look like a tabloid? It is.
http://www.bildblog.de/wp-content/koch1.jpg [bildblog.de]
http://www.bildblog.de/wp-content/katzenbenzin2.j
(images provided by Bild Blog, explained lower)
And the news is 100% fake with all involved now sueing BILD.
http://bildblog.de/ [bildblog.de]
Scroll down and read "Von Katzen und dummen Menschen" (Of Kats and Dumb People)
(You'll need to learn/know German or use Babelfish)
The blogers are two journalists that investigate BILD.
BILD reported bullshit and everyone else just sucks it up as pathetic the fucktards* they are, the dude even has on webpage that's it completely false and he's suing them for all the shit they're causing from years-old research that has nothing to do wiith what he said.
*Caring only for the shock-effect and not caring about reality, or any annoying thing like that.
http://www.alphakat.de/index.html [alphakat.de]
""WICHTIGE MITTEILUNG !
Die im Moment in den deutschen Medien verbreiteten Meldungen Dr. Christian Koch würde Katzenkadaver zu Diesel verarbeiten sind absolut falsch und entbehren jeden Bezug zur Realität.
Juristische Maßnahmen gegen diese Behauptungen wurden bereits unternommen."
"Important Notice!
The news currently being spread by certain a German News Agency concerning me using cat cadavers to produce Diesel is utterly wrong and have nothing to do with reality. I have taken legal steps against these accusations."
BILD also completely made up the "cited animal rights activists", and the people in question are enraged - and say they don't care how cadavers are treated as the only care about living animals. Duh.
Bild's also the paper that has titles like MANNER SIND JETZT PORTU-GEIL!!! (Men are now Portu-HORNY!!!" and are plastered with tits every day but Sunday, where they play "innocent Christian"... If you trust them, or even CNN who are about as neutral as Condoleeza Rice, as your only news source...
We do have human shit powered power plants, though...
Thermal depolymerisation... (Score:2, Informative)
This was news a year or so ago. 'Changing World Technologies' I think?! Can't be bothered looking for a link...
Re:How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"? (Score:1, Informative)
Oh sure, unless you consider something highly toxic as hazardous (don't get me started on their "Super Leaded"...)
Re:Response to Troll (Score:2, Informative)
> I do not endorse the site linked above, or guarantee in any way the accuracy of
> the material presented there.
For good reason - it's inaccurate.
Re:101 Uses for a Dead Cat. (Score:3, Informative)
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 be "interesting", I think the poster hasn't thought this through very much. )
Come on (Score:5, Informative)
The post is completely inaccurate.
Wrong (Score:2, Informative)
We are more close to Back to the future than we think.
I have enough baby diaper full of crap to power a shuttle
Least Harm Principle (Score:2, Informative)
I wonder if the animal rights activists that are objecting to this possibility of making biodiesel from dead cats are really considering the relatvie costs in animals harmed in the production of feline diesel and petrodiesel. Perhaps the toal number of animals harmed in the production of petrodiesel (from pulling crude from a well, shipping that crude, refining, shipping the refined fuel, all the way to combustion) is greater than the production of biodiesel from a (already) dead cat.
This paper (http://www.courses.rochester.edu/nobis/animals/Da vis-LeastHarm.htm [rochester.edu]) for instance argues that people who choose a vegan diet out of concern for the welfare of animals actually do more harm by taking their nutrients from foliage harvested via machinery that if they just ate the cows that harvested if for them.
Details on the KDV500 mentioned in the article. (Score:2, Informative)
The TITLE of the linked CNN story (Score:2, Informative)
SLASHDOT editors - RTFA! (Score:1, Informative)
How lazy do you have to be to not notice that the second paragraph in the article contradicts the writeup about it?