Comments on: Hydrogen Fuel Tanks Made from Chicken Feathers Could Save $5.5 Million

By: Helge Pharrherr

Helge Pharrherr — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:43:00 +0000

Save the salad! Eat Vegans!

By: kilth

kilth — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:33:00 +0000

shan

9/10-obviously a troll, but you managed to fool everyone else so pretty darn good

By: Adnum

Adnum — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:02:00 +0000

how could carbonized feathers be used for filtering air to collect odors?comments

By: Diggler

Diggler — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:54:28 +0000

too funny!

By: Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:01:14 +0000

Another wacko story to keep the peasants hoping.

By: Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Another wacko story to keep the peasants hoping.

By: Baking Chef

Baking Chef — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:16:02 +0000

god didn’t put chickens here for us to look at you guys needa accept the facts of life

By: Baking Chef

Baking Chef — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:16:00 +0000

god didn’t put chickens here for us to look at you guys needa accept the facts of life

By: Kenny Landis

Kenny Landis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:38:36 +0000

Thanks for the comments. After reading Shan’s post, I began to look at the life of a chicken. I realized they do have great lives. They eat tons of food. If my job were to eat tons of food, I’d be the happiest man alive….because I LOVE food. So, I would have to agree with everything everyone else said.

By: Kenny Landis

Kenny Landis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:38:00 +0000

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:45:52 +0000

Down the yellow brick H2 road again eh! Algae based bio-diesel, and bio-gases from the abundant flows of sewage in America including the offal from factory farms can reduce our foreign oil consumption, as can converting to the fairly common and very serviceable turbo-bio diesel engines from Europe and Japan, but America has it’s head up its proverbial, and doesn’t change one damn bit! We will be dreaming the H2 dream, building McMansions, and driving SUV’s with “Elvis” bobble dolls on the dash long after Asia has opened up its Empire, replaced the sawbuck with the “Yuan” internationally, and converted us to a tolerable ‘Third World’ entity, an oddity among it’s Empire of nations, Americans, they will say, in 2050, a strange lot, still winning WWII in their movies, slaving a life-time to hear a gasoline V-8 engine rumble, driving archaic 2 cylinder 1930’s engined Harley Davidson motorcycles, wearing Stetson hats and cowboy boots and going to fight in the trenches somewhere in the world to justify their sexuality! The rest of the world will have moved on to the far superior notions of the biologies and sustainabilities, while Americans will still build Sherman tanks and worship Elvis and Michael Jackson in Hollywood temples to times gone by! Americans will be categorized with the eccentric British, who will never really get over their long defunct “Empire” and still try to burn coal in stoves in their kitchens for old times sake! Change is not easy for Americans, nor is flexibility, and the H2 fixation a norm for them, even in light of the ready algae-bio-diesel to diesel engine solution at hand and workable in every respect, but not adopted because ???

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:45:00 +0000

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:00:40 +0000

It sounds to me like they are basically extracting keratin from the feathers, making it into fibers and putting it through ovens, in the same process that carbon fiber is made. (In fact, I wonder if the author is confusing carbon nano-tubes with plain carbon fiber) I would be very skeptical as to whether the strength is what they say it is. My guess is that it must be more similar to carbon fiber (which is still a pretty neat find). My question is… why, if this wonder material is as cheap to make and as awesome as they say it is, is the writer focusing the entire article on how it can be used for hydrogen storage? It could be used for all kinds of things, much more beneficial than hydrogen storage. (how many people filled their cars with hydrogen this week?)

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0000

By: antiPETA

antiPETA — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:19:28 +0000

sweet. hopefully KFC prices won’t go up as demand for chicken parts increases. or maybe they will go down as the chicken killers (said with great appreciation) will get more money for more of their product. yes, chickens are product. or would you rather more CO2 enter the atmosphere by burning more fossil fuels there PETA?

kudos and great idea. i hope it gets off the ground.

By: antiPETA

antiPETA — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:19:00 +0000

kudos and great idea. i hope it gets off the ground.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:57:24 +0000

Shan,

The purpose of this technology is to use those billions of chicken feathers that are going to be generated any-ways in a constructive manner. In this consumer culture, their is no way that people are going to change their chicken-consumption habits in the name of bio-energy exchange and humane treatment of animals.

I’m wondering how many car fuel tanks can be made from the availible 2.7 billion kg of feathers, and if feathers become a useful resource, will the price stay anywhere near $200 per tank?

By: Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:57:00 +0000

Shan,

I’m wondering how many car fuel tanks can be made from the availible 2.7 billion kg of feathers, and if feathers become a useful resource, will the price stay anywhere near $200 per tank?

By: BW

BW — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:55:10 +0000

I agree. Outstanding breakthrough. Please Shan! People will never stop eating chicken. It’s just the way of the world. If it’s gonna happen anyway, might as well save the earth in the process.

By: BW

BW — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:55:00 +0000

I agree. Outstanding breakthrough. Please Shan! People will never stop eating chicken. It’s just the way of the world. If it’s gonna happen anyway, might as well save the earth in the process.