Norfolk Town's Schools First To Be Heated By Burning Cattle

A "trailblazing" Norfolk town has begun heating many of its buildings - including the schools - by burning oil made from melted-down cow and pig carcasses. The strategy is described as "equal or lower in carbon footprint than natural gas." Should schools have to offer vegetarian heating?

Re:Possibly...

[mweather]

Burning fat for heat is traditional. The Inuit have been doing it for millennia.

still not as impressive

[circletimessquare]

as dr. liposuction diesel:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/21/fat-fuel-biodiesel-tech-sciences-cz_pcb_1222fatfuel.html [forbes.com]

Re:Bio-oil not very economical.

[Grishnakh]

Don't be stupid. People aren't raising pigs and cows just to burn them; they're raising them for food. The carcasses are a by-product that would be wasted otherwise.

Of course, it'd be more efficient if people just ate feed grain directly instead of feeding it to cows and then eating the cows (and burning their carcasses). However, people don't like feed grain very much, whereas cows are quite tasty.