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![]() Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006 09:38:55 -0400, Harry Krause wrote: Now the plan is to move from the lab to a full-sized pilot reactor on a farm somewhere Downstate. Zhang predicts the process could get 3.6 gallons of crude oil a day out of each pig. It sounds like we could get by with only three pigs unless our diesel consumption goes up from the current average. When I first saw the report I was concerned that we'd need more like a dozen or so. So that's my story when the wife and neighbors complain, lucky we only needed three. Pigs are among the most intelligent animals, so I believe we can get double duty from the critters without too much effort. I plan to rig a treadmill down in the engine room, and put three porkers on the belt. I'll lure them along with corn dangled on a line, but of course I'll have to let them have a taste of corn once in a while or they will soon tire of chasing the cob. My first question is whether or not this will constitute a sort of "ethanol" propulsion system, since I will be turning corn into motive power for my boat. Now of course these same pigs won't be able to run too many hours non-stop, so I'll install a system to recover pig poop from the bilge and I'll set up a poop refinery on the swim step. Ought to be able to make enough fuel while underway to be able to run the engine whenever the pigs "poop out". |
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