{"id":1611,"date":"2005-09-14T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/09\/14\/well-technically-cats-are-renewable\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T12:49:00","slug":"well-technically-cats-are-renewable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/well-technically-cats-are-renewable\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Technically Cats are Renewable…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Or, Biofuel Developments from Bizarro World<\/a>… I’m hoping Ryan<\/a> has just stumbled upon a prank, but the Germans are very serious about developing alternative energy sources…<\/p>\n A German inventor says he’s found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats.<\/p>\n Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers.<\/p>\n They are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter.<\/p>\n He said the resulting “high quality bio-diesel” costs just 15 pence per litre.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Some of you know that I have a lot of cats at home — six. Let me make it very clear that I am not fattening them up to make biodiesel…<\/p>\n Categories: biodiesel<\/a>, biofuels<\/a>, cats<\/a>, Germany<\/a>, weird<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or, Biofuel Developments from Bizarro World… I’m hoping Ryan has just stumbled upon a prank, but the Germans are very serious about developing alternative energy sources… A German inventor says [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n