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Sweden is Burning Biofuel Made from Bunnies

Posted October 20, 2009 4:57 PM

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Scientific American recently reported that Sweden uses a pretty strange source for some of its heating fuel: rabbits. Stockholm has an overabundance of the cotton-tailed critters, and the hungry bunnies are decimating city parks. To cut back on bunny populations and create a greener source of heating fuel for Swedes, city employees round up the rabbits, shoot them, freeze them and then ship them to a heating plant where they're incinerated. And yes, the thought of it makes our soul hurt, too.

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10/20/2009 9:59 PM

awww, poor little bunnies....
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10/20/2009 10:52 PM

Uneconomic.
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10/21/2009 12:39 AM

Couldn't they use squirrels instead? I have one in mind.

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10/21/2009 7:00 AM

Sounds like you and Steve S have plans for Kris & Del . Seriously, maybe the Swedes should make the rabbits into bunny-burgers and then collect the undigested remains of last night's bunny-burger dinner for fermentation into biogas .

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10/21/2009 12:42 AM

Or cats, you could definitely heat a pretty large city with cats as fuel.....
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10/21/2009 1:08 AM

It is a bit like the Planet Ark Christmas card recycling. Put your used cards in an envelope and mail them. Gee what a clever use of resources, recycling paper one gram at a time.

Cremating the bunnies would be a net energy loss situation. Round them up in decent quantities and use them as meat, now you're talking. With a bit of luck I may bag a couple this weekend.
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10/21/2009 1:25 AM

Shhhhh! Be very very quiet... I'm hunting wabbits.

Way ta go Elmer!

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10/21/2009 8:28 AM

Re: "With a bit of luck I may bag a couple this weekend."

Go , Quigley !
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10/21/2009 12:01 PM

Sounds like Del has some competition

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10/21/2009 7:52 AM

My uncle had a good system. He called it "cats and rats."

He breed both. He skinned the cats - and sold the pelts.
(the profit) He then fed the cat carcases to the rats, who
prospered. (got fat) and then let the cats catch the rats.

Quite a good self-feeding system really. No outlay, they bred
them selves, fed them selves, and the price of cat skins in
the war time was quite good; made mittens, plumbing wipes etc.

Didn't have to shoot anything; my uncle prospered, but the smell!
Suppose you cannot have everything.

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10/21/2009 10:59 AM

Sad. So many missed opportunities for lapin a la moutarde.

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10/21/2009 12:22 PM

Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy little condoms for the bunnies?
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10/21/2009 12:58 PM

Shhhhhhhhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet...I'm huntin' wabbits!

Ahhh, Elmer Fudd, where are you when destiny calls?...

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10/21/2009 3:03 PM

What's up doc?

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