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Inventor: I never used dead cats for fuel
Reuters ^ | Wed Sep 14,12:50 PM ET | unknown author from reuters

Posted on 09/15/2005 2:35:09 PM PDT by Redcitizen

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.

Christian Koch, an inventor and patent holder of the "KDV 500" that he said produces high quality fuel, said he can transform waste products such as paper, rubbish and plastic materials into fuel.

But Koch, 55, said there was no truth to stories published in Bild newspaper Tuesday and Wednesday that suggested he used dead cats as part of the mix for his organic diesel fuel.

"I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish," Koch told Reuters.

"It's an alternative fuel that is friendly for the environment. But it's complete nonsense to suggest dead cats. I've never used cats and would never think of that. At most the odd toad may have jumped in."

Bild Tuesday wrote a headline: "German inventor can turn cats into fuel -- for a tank he needs 20 cats." The paper on Wednesday followed up with a story entitled: "Can you really make fuel out of cats?"

A spokesman for Bild told Reuters the story was meant to show that cat remains could "in theory" be used to make fuel with Koch's patented method.

The author of the story said Koch had never told him directly that he had used dead cats as the story implied.

The website of Koch's firm, "Alphakat GmbH," says his patented "KDV 500" machine can produce what he calls the "bio-diesel" fuel at about 23 euro cents (30 cents) a liter, which is about one-fifth the price at petrol stations now.

"I drive my normal diesel-powered car with this mixture," Koch is quoted saying in Bild, next to a large picture of a kitten. "I have gone 170,000 km (106,000 miles) without a problem."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cats; diesel; fuel; renewableenergy
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So that explains the purring sound of a well tuned engine.
1 posted on 09/15/2005 2:35:10 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Of course he didn't use dead cats ... there's more octane in live ones


2 posted on 09/15/2005 2:36:06 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Proud member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 1972-1973)
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To: Redcitizen
Where did I put that flux capacitor?
3 posted on 09/15/2005 2:36:50 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Mary Landrieu, just another "New Orleans Lady")
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To: Redcitizen
If it were dead Pigeons no one would care.
4 posted on 09/15/2005 2:37:09 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Redcitizen
I need a bumper sticker that says.....

It's Bush's fault. He killed the dinosaurs so Halliburton could have oil.
5 posted on 09/15/2005 2:37:40 PM PDT by BMC1
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Heck if cats work why not...

Put a tiger in your tank?

6 posted on 09/15/2005 2:38:24 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Mary Landrieu, just another "New Orleans Lady")
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To: Redcitizen

I love cats too. Let's exchange recipes.


7 posted on 09/15/2005 2:38:27 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Some assembly required.)
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LOL, "put a tiger in your tank." Whose jingle was that, Esso?


8 posted on 09/15/2005 2:38:34 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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To: satchmodog9

'cept maybe the sierra club...


9 posted on 09/15/2005 2:38:34 PM PDT by Redcitizen (This line intentionally left blank)
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To: Redcitizen

What's wrong with using dead cats (or live ones, for that matter)?


10 posted on 09/15/2005 2:39:29 PM PDT by rockprof
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To: T Minus Four

Cats--the other white meat!

:)


11 posted on 09/15/2005 2:40:00 PM PDT by Redcitizen (This line intentionally left blank)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Dang, beat me by ten seconds.


12 posted on 09/15/2005 2:40:02 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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Sounds like he's ripping off these dudes and I hope they sue: Anything into Oil(solution to dependence on foregn oil?)
13 posted on 09/15/2005 2:40:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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14 posted on 09/15/2005 2:40:21 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Some assembly required.)
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I never used dead cats for fuel.

Ah HA! Then you admit using dead cats! If not for fuel, WHAT then? Hmmm????

15 posted on 09/15/2005 2:40:23 PM PDT by siunevada
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To: clamper1797
Now somebody has got to post that pic of the "Free Cat" sign on the side of the road.

Nam Vet

16 posted on 09/15/2005 2:40:50 PM PDT by Nam Vet (Money can't buy love. (but it sure can rent it))
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How to Eat Cats
17 posted on 09/15/2005 2:42:15 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Some assembly required.)
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At most the odd toad may have jumped in."

Hehe, at least he didn't lose his sense of humor! I remember that article, and it certainly implied that he used an occasional dead cat.
18 posted on 09/15/2005 2:42:20 PM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: rockprof

You get more mileage because they have 9 lives...


19 posted on 09/15/2005 2:42:40 PM PDT by Redcitizen (This line intentionally left blank)
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To: T Minus Four

Hahaha... did you read the quote from the sixties cartoon babe in the ad?

"FREDDY! One tiger in the car is enough!"


20 posted on 09/15/2005 2:43:09 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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