Dead cats turned into diesel

Posted: September 13th, 2005 | 4 Comments »

(via), a very quirky way to solve some gas-related issues:

A German inventor says he’s found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats.
Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers.
They are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter.
He said the resulting “high quality bio-diesel” costs just 15 pence per litre.
Koch said the cadaver of a fully grown cat can produce 2.5 litres of fuel – meaning around 20 cats are needed for a full tank.
He said: “I tank my car with my own diesel mixture and have driven it for 105,000 miles without any problems.”
Annelise Krauss of the Dresden Animal Protection Association blasted Koch’s new diesel though, saying: “This is as bad as experimenting on animals.”

… time will tell..


4 Comments on “Dead cats turned into diesel”

  1. 1 jasonspage.net » Blog Archive » Biodiesel. said at 3:38 pm on September 13th, 2005:

    [...] Inventor turns dead cats into diesel. (via) [...]

  2. 2 Robert said at 7:21 am on September 15th, 2005:

    This is gross. I can’t even imagine what it smells like…

  3. 3 ol said at 4:04 pm on October 20th, 2005:

    It probably smells like diesel.

  4. 4 Carrie said at 12:05 am on May 31st, 2006:

    that is awesome. kill all cats. there are too many anyway. the humane society kills hundreds by the day. why not use all those useless stray cats as fuel, i say.


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