Cow-powered train!

Longsword · Heavy Crude Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 142

Certainly not a solution to the global energy problems, but worth a giggle at the very least:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4373440.stm

Mooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Swedes!

Gorm · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:11 am Post subject: Re: Cow-powered train!

Local lifeboats, it is good in all aspects.

nocar · Intermediate Crude Joined: Nov 05, 2004 Posts: 685

Yes, of course it is good to use the parts of slaughtered animals, that can not be sold, for something else - in this case biogas.

But I keep thinking about what people did in former times, before the oil era. Lots of what now can not be sold was food - guts made up the outside of sausages; lever, kidneys, fats around the intestines were all eaten. And marrows of course. Bones were boiled to make jellied meat dishes. And what people did not like to eat became food for dogs and pigs.

So, using byproducts of the choiciest cuts is probable only possible because we are so energy rich in other ways.

nocar

OilMan · Coal Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 14

pstarr · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:32 am Post subject: Re: Cow-powered train!

skyemoor · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Cow-powered train!