"fuel derived from living animals"

[mrcharly-YHT]

run by a boiler powered by biomass (fuel derived from living or recently-living animals and plants)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8504050.stm

I think the reporter might have slightly misunderstood an explanation of biomass. Or maybe they are going to shove live rabbits, calves, babies etc into a furnace.

[mattc]

Is this related:

"Corpse-eating" robot is actually a vegetarian  - Telegraph

?

[clarion]

Well, you could use chicken manure as a biomass fuel.  It'd be derived from a living animal...

[Really Ancien]

Whale oil reigned for a couple of hundred years as the preferred source of lighting, perhaps this misplacing of an 'and' for an 'or' is a folk memory.
From whale oil and beyond - The Boston Globe

Damon.

[alexb]

Well, you could use chicken manure as a biomass fuel.  It'd be derived from a living animal...

When I was a kid, there was a nutcase chicken farmer living near me who ran a motorcycle on buiogas derieved from rotting chicken manure and straw.
One of my dad's best friends collected vintage motorbikes, and the two of them (chicken farmer man and m'bike collector) were good friends.

Apparently the collector was pretty simple, just a big vat of stinky manure with an airtight lid.

[Really Ancien]

Londoners are living animals of a sort, I reluctantly have to admit.


       
            Beckton STW Sludge Powered Generator
            —
       
        Renewable Energy Association
   

Damon.

[Jaded]

just a big vat of stinky manure with an airtight lid.

<nostalgia>

ah, school meals.

</nostalgia>

[Jules]

Whale oil reigned for a couple of hundred years as the preferred source of lighting, perhaps this misplacing of an 'and' for an 'or' is a folk memory.
From whale oil and beyond - The Boston Globe

Damon.

<belloc>
And so replace the colza bean
(A product of the soil).
</belloc>

[Zipperhead]

Londoners are living animals of a sort, I reluctantly have to admit.

We've been at it for a long time



The lamp is a Webb Patent Sewer Gas Lamp, and was invented in the 19th century as a way to burn off smells from underground sewers. As such, it's probably the only of London's remaining gas-powered lamps with operates all the time, day and night, as the cost of resources is no object.

[Pancho]

Stockholm's rabbits burned to keep Sweden heated  - Telegraph

[Moloko]

Enchilada Night.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Erm.

If you are vegan, does that mean you wouldn't live or use electricity in an ecotown with a biomass generator?

[andygates]

If you're a proper vegan you shouldn't use oil. Won't somebody think of the dinosaurs?

[Zoidburg]

A proper vegan would live on a platform at the top of a 30m high pole in constant isolation from the rest of society.

Only then could his or her passing in the world be certain to have no detrimental effect on animals.

[LEE]

Hmmm, what's in this Soylent-Green stuff?  It tastes lovely. 

[tonycollinet]

Enchilada Night.

pic snipped

Thanks - sometimes you just need a good laugh.     

[Regulator]

In Australia they're talking about using cane toads as a biomass fuel source...