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We all know about pollution and global warming etc.
How green would your car be if made entirely of vegetables?
It would run on vegetable oil, of course, nothing shocking there, but think of the optional extras...
comfrey seats, parsley shelf, sunflower roof, seedy player, driver and
passenger pear-bags, arti-choke, and a dandelion clock so you can tell the thyme.
Undoubtedly talented marketing people could think of many many more...
Vegetable Oil as Fuel
http://www.greasel.com/
Run your diesel auto on used cooking oil. [grip, Oct 04 2004]
Up In Smoke
http://www.imdb.com...78446/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Cheech & Chong unwittingly drive a van with a chasis made from marijuana. [DrBob, Oct 25 2014]
car vegetable interactions, huge daikons, 14 y/o girl etc
http://en.rocketnew...g-run-over-by-cars/
[not_morrison_rm, Oct 27 2014]
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ewww, I think theirs bugs in the carrot door handles |
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It wouldnt have a very long life tho. After a few months all youd have would be a pile of compost. |
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Or if not a lemon, it could grow on you after a while. |
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Let me guess, you use Olive Oil? |
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He shouldn't drive if he has been drinking... |
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Didn't somebody do a chia pet out of a car a while back? |
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I'd like a limeousine in mint condition!
(+ for the spaced out idea. Welcome!) |
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I'm sure we can orange something. |
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Henry Ford supposedly built a car from hemp fiber, but I cannot find a link for it without hundreds of pop-ups lobbying for/against legalization of hemp. |
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Any vegetables that can be used as cylinder lining? |
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Hemp is legal. Growing it without a license is not. |
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Fred Flintstone's car was made of wood and stone. And foot powered. You could argue it was vegetarian, at least for beavers. |
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There are some vegetable based plastics, but my guess is chlorine or something would be added to get a plastic to survive fire explosion needed to get down the road on vegi gasoline. |
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Battery cases for an electric car might be doable. But the copper cables and motor windings are not going to be vegetable. |
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Maybe Rubber band powered would get you an all vegetable vehicle. |
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There's a really big gap in material requirements
between "can serve as a motor" and "edible". |
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Completely irrelevant news story I remembered with car and vegetable in the story...link |
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//a really big gap in material requirements// |
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... which could be narrowed if we weren't restricted to the edible parts of vegetables. There are fibrous parts to corn-cobs, for example, that you don't eat, and there are celery strings that you start to eat and then wish you hadn't. Have we there the weavings of a fan belt? |
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Nut-shells might feature, on the same principle. |
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I see great possibilities for those bones that are always removed from a fillet of Quorn before it's served. |
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This could be made to work. Plants contain small
amounts of iron, copper and other useful things. So,
if you ashed a few hundred sequoias you ought to be
able to recover enough to make a small car. |
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Wrecking yards would yield an endless supply of soup stock. |
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