[TheForge] [TRIVIA] Porxygen lance

Mike Spencer mspencer at tallships.ca
Fri Apr 17 03:13:14 EDT 2009


You thought it was bizarre to raise huge amounts of corn to produce
ethanol for fuel with a fraction of a percent net gain in energy over
the energy used to produce it?

Well, now the pork industry can join the parade:

   http://www.popsci.com/bacon

The bacon-oxygen lance.  There's even a vegetarian
cucumber-bread-crumb-oxygen variant as a token sop for the PETA people.

Jeez, the speed of technology!  I've made only minimal progress on
replacing my drill press with a railgun that fires calibrated green
peas [1] through steel plate.

- Mike


[1] Petite pois for metric holes, of course

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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