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The Cattle Dung Magnates

Posted by garym on March 3, 2006 - 10:53am

It will be Tulsa all over again.

Cadillacs lining the streets in Paisley, capped chaufeurs lined up beside them awaiting their denim'd patrons, whole mediaeval castles imported brick by brick to replace tilting woodframe homesteads, Leer jets in and out of Ferndale on the half-hour ... yeah, we know about windmills and Septic Power, Sewage Fuel Cells and even Landfill Trash Power, but I'm telling you, Cow Pie Power is going to transform Bruce County!

agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted 1.4 milliliters (0.042 ounces) of gasoline from every 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of cow dung by applying high pressure and heat.
[ via Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung - Yahoo! News ]

Cow dung gasoline? Yeah, we got cow dung. Loads of it. We got a pile of Bruce Grade-A Bull ... piled high and deep too. And we get a litre of fuel from every 100kg? Shibusawa says the technology should be viable for production use within 5 years.

So Sheik Joe, y'know, he says to Prince Al, "I don't care what you got planned, boy, them OPEC fellers done upped the kitty agin so you just get yor beehind out t'th'barn and start shovellin so's we can make auction time." -- ah the rural life ...