BenB
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 01:38 PM |
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Biodiesel from animal fat?
from article re excessive lambs in Scotland unable to move due to F+M restrictions...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7035225.stm
"Some carcasses will be used for biodiesel"
Really?
Turning animal fat into biodiesel?
Cool! I want to be part of the winning Diesel team @ LeMans in (hopefully at least) 2067!!!!
Forget scattering ashes. How about flaming out of the exhaust pipe of this badboy:
In the words of Pink Floyd "why should i be frightened of dying? there's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime. ..."
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stevec
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 01:40 PM |
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Based on that I could do Lands end to John o Groats on the power of my belly.
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 01:49 PM |
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Funny world in that we live:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/04/1
7/cnconoco17.xml
I gallon from two cows, 16 pigs, or 1,300 chickens!!
So at 12mpg that's 6 mpcow, 0.75mppig or,0.009mpchicken...
That's a lot of animals...
Dan
[Edited on 9/10/07 by Bluemoon]
I can never add up!
[Edited on 9/10/07 by Bluemoon]
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stevec
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 01:52 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Bluemoon
Funny world in that we live:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/04/1
7/cnconoco17.xml
I gallon from two cows, 16 pigs, or 1,300 chickens!!
So at 12mpg that's 0.16 mpcow, 1.3mppig or,1083mpchicken...
That's a lot of animals...
Dan
Brilliant
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BenB
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 01:53 PM |
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You've made an error somewhere!!!
1 gallon = 2 cows
Therefore a diesel car doing 12mpg will do
6 mpc, 2mpp and 0.009mpCh
Q. How do you get the cow through the filler hole? (magimix and a funnel?)
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vinny1275
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 01:56 PM |
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So race tracks would smell of doner kebab instead of castrol-r? I bet they'd sell more beer......
At only half a gallon per cow, you'd need quite a lot of cows to run that Audi for the whole 24 hours.
Now I'm just waiting for someone to figure out if cows are worth more as biodiesel than for their meat. We could then start a big farm, use the
cows for biodiesel, the skins for leather steering wheels and seats, and sell the meat as a waste by-product!
(what a bizarre world I live in...)
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02GF74
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 03:04 PM |
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DIY liposuctiuon, just plumb your beer gut into your engine and off you go.
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designer
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 03:15 PM |
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My friend owns a animal rendering plant if the UK. They used animal fat to power their boiler instead of oil/gas/etc.
This, of course, saved them a fortune.
Last year it was made illegal by the Uk government to burn it.
Why??
They have paid not tax on it!!
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caber
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 05:02 PM |
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Oh God! Biofuels are an unreaslistic alternative to petrol at the best due to the vast area of land required to produce a few gallons of fuel. I
dread to think what the conversion factors are if you have to feed animals with what you have grown first!
I do like 02gf74's idea though, liposuction to fuel! How about adding a methane injection system based on a constant diet of backed beans? I
suspect we would be looking at a compression ignition solution rather than a bike engine to make it work!
BTW this is not new technology. Before gas lights and paraffin wax candles houses were lit with rush lights, basically a split dried rush soaked in
left over cooking fat! In the far north there were some birds that could be used as lamps once killed by shoving a wick through the skin and warking
up by the fire, the body fat would melt and the wick could be lit, thereafter you could carry it around the house to light up other rooms! Just
imagine how smelly light must have been!
Caber
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