Jag runs on apples

[bananas]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2184223.html?menu=news.quirkies

Jag runs on apples


A Somerset farmer has converted his Jag so it runs on rotting apple fumes.

Henry Hobhouse, 52, who lives near Castle Cary, packs two underground tanks full of apples and collects the methane gas produced as they rot.

The 3-litre XJ6 saloon now runs on methane and costs around 40p a litre.

Henry says the 145mph car gains 10% in power by running on compressed methane and still returns around 28mpg.

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[msongs]

1. how can we use methane DIRECTLY from cows? they make HUGE amounts nt

[LiberalEsto]

7. Put a cow on the back of the pickup

and give it lots of food...and attach a pipe directly from the cow's back end to the engine...

:crazy:

[kestrel91316]

9. Manure pits on dairy farms are already being tapped for

power generation - but not on a widespread scale (yet).

In the future, if dairy farms want power, they may very well have to make their own or do without.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Now if we can just find a way to contain our farts...

[aquart]

3. I suddenly see...

Little rump-worn fart collectors. Chairs will be re-designed to accommodate them. And fashion. Citizens will be encouraged to eat beans.

People just won't look right without a fart collector on their ass.

[LiberalEsto]

8. That explains everything!

No wonder B*sh owns a copy of "The Fart Book" and reportedly cuts loose all the time in public.

He's secretly an expert on alternative energy sources and is shrewdly experimenting with secret fart technology to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. What happens when we pass PEAK APPLE???

The horror!

:)

--p!

[Porcupine]

5. Some say the Quince reserves can be brought online......

but I think that they're just souring the conservationists.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. NO! Not QUINCE!

Dick Cheney likes quince!

--p!

[phantom power]

10. Huge crabapple reserves in Canada. But they require steam extraction...

powered by nuclear reactors.

[Dogmudgeon]

11. Nuclear Reactors? You mean "The Precious", right?

Oh, that will never do!

The Shire of Nevernuke is run by only Good Magic(k), which explaineth why it can only sustain a 13th-century standard of living and is still a monarchy.

At least it be commanded by Good Queen Cutegoth the Raveress. She maketh the Sigil of "X" -- only £10/6 in this style (capsule).

Let us implore the Fire-Breathing Orps of Merrymeet to heat the mystical Energy Gems so that the Grand Dutchy of Peakoil may command enough energy for Phish to play at the twixt-fortnightly Festival of the Cannabis Moon!

ObEmoticon:
:evilgrin:

--p!
Cultivating yet another bad hobbit.

[phantom power]

12. LOL! You had me at "shire of nevernuke"

But Phish puts it over the top.
:rofl: