Well to save my little corner of the environment, I'm working on making my own Bio-Gas to power the Zeppelin, I watched an interesting science program last night about a town in Sweden that runs all their public transport and many residents cars on the stuff, it is totally emission free, and they produce the gas from cow dung, so there's no chance of their dollars (Kroners?) going to the Arabs either.
Sadly for me there aren't too many cows in my yard, but I've got a dog, four cats, a wife and two sons, so I've started a program of covertly feeding them all food rich in chemicals that will contribute to a higher octane rated fuel. It's taking longer than I hoped though as 1 square yard of "waste" (poop) only produces about a litre of bio-fuel, and I've calculated that I'll need approx 24000 litres of gas to make the round trip to the US?
At the time of writing I've only managed to collect about 6 square inches of the stuff, mainly from the pets (and a few other pieces that I found while scouring the sidewalk last night after the program) as my family are either all mysteriously constipated, or possibly holding back the necessary raw materials required to produce some serious Bio-fuel. While I can understand that they'll all miss me while I'm away delivering tools to needy sohc'ers, I think they need to look past this petty selfishness, and give me as much of that "Brown Gold" as they can reasonably produce.
Hmmnnn, well then I thought to myself, "why not ask for some help from my neighbours?" so I did a door-knock, which, in the calm light of day may not have been the best approach, as it was pretty dark, and I am a fairly imposing looking bloke, and being winter here I was wearing my heavy (but warm) camo combat jacket and ski-mask. I guess it's not that surprising that some of my "new to Australia" neighbours who are still coming to terms with the english language were somewhat confused when I knocked on their front doors at 10 pm asking that they "Give me all your #$%*". The response was mixed, and although I didn't manage to secure much in the way of raw materials again, I did for some reason end up with enough money to pay Mike for a new head and a set of CR carbs, and several nice cell phones, and even a very nice stereo which I guess I can use in the Zep?
Anyway, stay tuned folks, and I'll try to keep you all updated on my efforts to (eventually) make your wrenching a more affordable and ultimately more enjoyable, experience. In the meantime, if anyone can provide me with more raw material I'd really appreciate it, I read somewhere that Americans consume on average 100 acres of pizza per day, so I'm particularly interested in collecting the pizza by-product, as I believe that (depending on your choice of topping) that the bio-fuel produced from pizza alone would be perfect for powering my Zeppelin? Thanks in advance, Cheers, Terry.
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