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bacon powered car
engine cooks bacon, collects and burns fat similarly to turbo diesels | |
This idea is inspired by the 100 foot rolls of bacon idea (#1063308896) and [kamenmann]'s comment. Basically, this vehicle uses a battery to heat an electric conveyor grill built into the engine block. This feature is integrated into the "glow-plug" system common in modern diesels. After the combustion
chamber generates enough heat to cook the bacon and extract most of the fats, the electrical heating system turns off.
The cooked bacon comes out a slot in the dash with an automatic blade that cuts it off at a user-specified length and drops into a washable basket below.
You load the rolls of bacon into a special port just between the windshield and hood/bonnet (next to the refrigeration unit also used for A/C).
100 Foot Rolls of Bacon
http://www.halfbake...0Rolls_20of_20Bacon
the idea referenced in the first paragraph [krelnik, Oct 04 2004]
Another bacon inspired device...
http://www.halfbake...con_20Fax_20Machine
The bacon fax machine could be connected directly to the output of the baco-car. Why? I don't know, just 'cos. [Jinbish, Oct 04 2004]
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Should be popular, what with the atkins craze as of late. Like they say, the only thing better than meat and potatoes is meat and meat!. Bacon for breakfast, bacon for lunch, bacon for dinner! |
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[+++] A delicious bagel of an idea. It should go into immediate production. Ahh the aroma of it . A definite plus when driving through poor areas where people are starving to death. I reckon this will make them even more envious of you. |
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Is bacon the new custard? |
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Only if you pour it on apple pie. |
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On a cold winter morning, this car would be a real pig to get started. |
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Sorry, that joke was a bit rasher than it should have been. |
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BTW, wouldn't this technically be a sausage powered car? |
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Porking would not be a problem |
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Is there nothing that bacon can't do? I'm just in the office and settled down - but am inspired to have another breakfast: to the shops for a bacon roll! |
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I've just had the notion of writing a software package to copy all the ideas in the HB but replace the main subject to involve bacon. It would work much like poot.com but be about bacon and I would call it:
The Halfbaconery |
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Thats a halfbaconed idea if ever I heard one |
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Would it squeal and grunt once ready ? No rind thanks [+] |
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Now if only I could get my cassette player to make toast... |
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Petrol stations will no longer be a place to pinch your nose. |
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[bwv61], I believe lard could be used. As it has the same properties as bacon fat, the high-temp high-viscosity hydrocarbon engine could easily burn lard to supply translational (to move the car) and random kinetic (to cook the bacon/ melt the lard) energy. |
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This I like.
It could be like an ice cream truck...but with back bacon eh. |
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Baked (look up 'Biodiesel' on google.) |
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We propose the idea of a "bacon economy".
Feed crops such as maize are grown and fed
to pigs. When the pigs reach slaughter
weight, they are butchered annd converted
to bacon and other delicious pork
derivatives. The remains are renndered for
lard, which is connverted to diesel fuel. All
homes are provided with a recycling
receptacle for bacon and other fats and oils
whic are collected by a cart pulled by pigs
and delivered to the lard processing centre. |
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The pig manure is used on the maize fields as
a fertilizer. |
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