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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rolex on March 03, 2006, 10:48:14 PM
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Well, it appears that politicians around the world will be able to solve the coming global energy crunch. Every nation in the world has enough politicians to produce the raw material to make their nation completely energy independent.
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Scientists Extract Gasoline from Cattle Dung
Associated Press, March 4, 2006
Scientists in energy-poor Japan said they have found a new source of gasoline -- cattle dung.
Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted 1.4 milliliters of gasoline from every 100 grams of cow dung by applying high pressure and heat.
"The new technology will be a boon for livestock breeders" to reduce the burden of disposing of large amounts of waste, Shibusawa said.
About 500,000 tons of cattle dung are produced each year in Japan, he said.
Gasoline extracted from cow dung is unheard of, said Tomiaki Tamura, an official of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency. Japan relies almost totally on imports for its oil and gasoline needs.
The team, helped by staff from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology near Tokyo, produced gasoline by adding several unspecified metal catalysts to the dung inside a container and applying a 30-atmosphere pressure and heat of up to 300 degrees Celsius, Shibusawa said. Details of the catalysts could not be disclosed, he added.
The team hopes to improve the technology so that it can be used commercially within five years, Shibusawa said.
In a separate experiment revealing another unusual business potential for cow dung, another group of researchers has successfully extracted an aromatic ingredient of vanilla from cattle dung, said Miki Tsuruta, a Sekisui Chemical Co. spokeswoman. The extracted ingredient, vanillin, can be used as fragrance in shampoo and candles, she said.
Tsuruta said the vanillin was extracted from a dung solution in a pressurized cooker in a project co-organized by a Japanese medical research institute.
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Great, now if they'd somehow connect a politician to this device and let him blow his hot air into it this might actually become energy efficient
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In a separate experiment revealing another unusual business potential for cow dung, another group of researchers has successfully extracted an aromatic ingredient of vanilla from cattle dung, said Miki Tsuruta, a Sekisui Chemical Co. spokeswoman. The extracted ingredient, vanillin, can be used as fragrance in shampoo and candles, she said.
:huh
I hope they will at least have a recognisable logo...
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A flaming **** would serve as a pretty apt logo......
edit: you're joking. I cant say t***? ok, cow pat.
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Swoop - you can say the T word if you use the u with an umlaut - ü - cut and paste this one, but I don't think himself would like it.
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Cow dung, it at least has a whiff of reality.
A cow pat sounds almost edible.
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Folks been burnin' chips for a few millenia. (cow or buffalo or yak or some sort of livestock)
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Originally posted by beet1e
Swoop - you can say the T word if you use the u with an umlaut - ü - cut and paste this one, but I don't think himself would like it.
Tell ya what, I'll save the mod a job....
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Originally posted by Swoop
Tell ya what, I'll save the mod a job....
7- Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated. This includes attempts to bypass the profanity filter.
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I'll save them another job :D
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Originally posted by Nilsen
I'll save them another job :D
And me.
2- Threads should remain on topic, do not "hijack" topics.
:p
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Geez this thread has gone to sh**.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Geez this thread has gone to sh**.
LOL - that's how it started out...
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Originally posted by beet1e
LOL - that's how it started out...
:rofl
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course.... if people keep conserving fuel all this new R&D will cease or slow..
I am doing my part in getting the ball rolling by driving 450 hp cars.
lazs
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Ok .. if maths is correct I make that just under one 1/3 of a tonne of crap per gallon!
Lets say the average pat is 1 kilogramme and a cow poos every 20 minutes .... you'd need 5 cows to provide enough fuel over the course of a day for an average commute of 50 miles.
There's also the issue of collecting all this "fuel" as well as a contributing to gloabal warming with all that methane. :)
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cut out the middle man, ride a horse to work.
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Originally posted by lazs2
course.... if people keep conserving fuel all this new R&D will cease or slow..
I am doing my part in getting the ball rolling by driving 450 hp cars.
LOL Lazs! :lol
But you know, I sort of agree with you. Politicians are like IT Managers. They can be warned of a looming crisis but will do nothing until the issue reaches crisis proportions - then they act. I always found I scored more points through brinksmanship, ie. by allowing an incipient crisis to develop, and then pulling their arses out of the fire at the last moment.
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Originally posted by john9001
cut out the middle man, ride a horse to work.
Cut out the horse, ride the cow.