I am sure that the process would work with dogs as well as cats.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at September 14, 2005 6:31 PM

I think: Pigeons. The ChiComs think: Convicts.

Robert: Dogs would do well to keep that in mind. If they acted like cats, they'd certainly deserve it, too.

OJ, We still would need the higher fuel taxes to get the cats. Whatever happened to turkey guts? You know what happened to Egypt when they messed with cats.

I'm still waiting for the wise guy to make his comment.

John:

Disgusting and inhumane. BTW, does it do lizards?

Now look what you've done!

Kitty diesel to keep the national railroads running.

There is a certain coherence to your reasoning, oj, I admit.

I think it's important to note that this guy's engine isn't running solely on cats: "...a homemade blend of garbage, run-over cats and other ingredients..."
So it would seem that he's just shoveling any organic matter he can find in the thing's maw. Personally, I think both cats and dogs (properly trained) are perfectly pleasant creatures.

We have some good news and some bad news: First the bad news--the Martians have landed and no one can stop them; the good news is that they eat cats and [excrete] gasoline.

George W. Bush owns two dogs, so it's obvious he's in the pocket of Big Cat, which will soon be raking in illegal profits by swooping down on ASPCAs across the country for natural resources which then then will sell at exhorbatant prices (I'm just trying to get ahead of the curve here on the next big wave of anti-corporate rantings...)

This technique should defintely work for doglets (yorkies, poodles, chihuahuas).Which would be the first use anyone has ever found for those counter-examples for Intellegent Design (ID).

When you pull up to the gas pump, you'll go to open the cover to get to the gas cap and you'll see a little sticker that says: CATOLINE ONLY

. . . but I bet the engine purrs!

"Whatever happened to turkey guts? "

Innovative turkey-to-oil plant eats money, spits out fowl odor, Kansas City Star, 4/12/05

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at September 14, 2005 9:17 PM

Genecis:

The good news about turkey guts is that thermal depolymerization WORKS !!

The bad news is that, at least at the Carthage, Missouri pilot plant, it costs $ 80/bbl to turn out a petroleum product somewhere between light sweet crude and diesel fuel.

Still, it does mean that there's a pretty solid cap on how high prices can go for geologically-extracted crude.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at September 14, 2005 9:18 PM

OBC: you put us to shame.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at September 14, 2005 9:18 PM

Duly noted, Robert.

Governer, you're quite right about well-trained dogs and cats being pleasant. But tell me: have you really ever met any of the latter? :-)

Used to be, we'd "put a tiger in your tank!" Now we're reduced to this?

Good Wood

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at September 14, 2005 10:45 PM

More turkey guts:

Depending on the feedstock and the cooking times, the process can be tweaked to make other specialty chemicals that may be even more profitable than oil. Turkey offal, for example, can be used to produce fatty acids for soap, tires, paints, and lubricants. Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC—the stuff of house siding, wallpapers, and plastic pipes—yields hydrochloric acid, a relatively benign and industrially valuable chemical used to make cleaners and solvents.

Experiments at the pilot facility revealed that the process is scalable—plants can sprawl over acres and handle 4,000 tons of waste a day or be "small enough to go on the back of a flatbed truck" and handle just one ton daily, says Brian Appel, CEO of Changing World Technologies.

The technicians here have spent three years feeding different kinds of waste into their machinery to formulate recipes. In a little trailer next to the plant, Appel picks up a handful of one-gallon plastic bags sent by a potential customer in Japan. The first is full of ground-up appliances, each piece no larger than a pea. "Put a computer and a refrigerator into a grinder, and that's what you get," he says, shaking the bag. "It's PVC, wood, fiberglass, metal, just a mess of different things. This process handles mixed waste beautifully." Next to the ground-up appliances is a plastic bucket of municipal sewage.
"It's a two-step process, and you do more in step one or step two depending on what you are processing," Terry Adams says. "With the turkey guts, you do the lion's share in the first stage. With mixed plastics, most of the breakdown happens in the second stage." The oil-to-mineral ratios vary too. Plastic bottles, for example, yield copious amounts of oil, while tires yield more minerals and other solids. So far, says Adams, "nothing hazardous comes out from any feedstock we try."
"The only thing this process can't handle is nuclear waste," Appel says. "If it contains carbon, we can do it."

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at September 15, 2005 4:25 AM

Anon:
Cats are very easy to train, so long as you realize that they're not dogs and don't attempt to train them like dogs.

High Test!!! It's cats!!!!!! Damn you, damn you all to Hell!!!!!

Cats are indeed very easy to train. We've got ours trained to the point where we do exactly what she wants us to.

Now listen, Mr. Johnny Brubeck
How could you be so mean.
I told you you'd be sorry
For inventing that machine;
Now all the neighbors' cats and dogs
Will never more be seen
They've all been been ground for motor fuel
In Johnny Brubeck's machine.