In order to reduce greenhouse gasses!?

Question

I was thinking about fitting a catalytic converter to my butt. This would reduce gas emissions when I farted . Are there any other ways I can save the world before it is too late.

Answer 1

You could run your central heating system on the methane you collect. just be carefull of blowbacks.

Answer 2

Good idea but the problem from your butt is methane not Carbon monoxide or sulphur dioxide which a car based cat works on and these things have to be very hot so good if you live in the artic to keep your bum warm but poo if you live in the bahamas you`ll burn your back side either way as they need to be above 300 degrees c to get them working.

the best thing you can do is to light it up on exit but that carries certain risks as well as their is a high likley hood of blowing your legs off or at least setting fire to your butt. this is not quite as good as full conversion to something nice but it is better as methane is about 20 times more of a problem per mole then CO2 so at least you would be minimiseing your carbon footprint. my serious advice is to eat less beans while surfing the internet. 20 mins less on the pc each day will definatley counteract the effect of your backside.

keep saving the planet chap and have fun lighting your ***

Answer 3

Well your farts are in fact carbon neutral. You must have recently eaten something to produce the gas. Now if you could find a way of collecting it and heating your home that really would be something. In fact, I could probably heat my whole street!!

Answer 4

Brian,

"stop eating meat" is the obvious answer.

Researchers at the University of Chicago have calculated the relative carbon intensity of a standard vegan diet in comparison to a US-style carnivorous diet, all the way through from production to processing to distribution to cooking and consumption. An average burger man (that is, not the outsize variety) emits the equivalent of 1.5 tonnes more CO2 every year than the standard vegan. By comparison, were you to trade in your conventional gas-guzzler for a state of the art Prius hybrid, your CO2 savings would amount to little more than one tonne per year.

The basic rule of thumb is that it takes 2kg of feed to produce every kilogram of chicken, 4kg for pork, and at least 7kg for beef. The more meat we eat, the more grain, soya and other feedstuffs we need. So when we hear that the total global meat demand is expected to grow from 209m tonnes in 1997 to around 327m tonnes in 2020, what we have to hold in our mind is all the extra hectares of land required, all the extra water consumed, the extra energy burned, and the extra chemicals applied to grow the requisite amount of feed to produce 327m tonnes of meat.

Only a tiny proportion of those recently alerted to the threat of climate change would make any connection whatsoever between this and the food they eat. These are two entirely different zones of environmental reality - and getting one's head around climate change is proving to be enough of a challenge anyway.

As far as our government is concerned, it apparently doesn't matter any longer where the food we buy comes from, as long as it meets minimum food safety and animal welfare standards. If our big retailers can source their produce from elsewhere in the world at lower costs than UK producers, what's the problem? In a global economy, where food is treated just like any other traded commodity, we may still need farmers (for the time being at least), but we don't necessarily need them based in the UK itself.

Many people believe the government has got this one badly wrong. Food isn't "just another commodity", it is the foundation of personal wellbeing and is inextricably interwoven into a nation's culture, character and land use. In that regard, farming and food production embody a set of skills and capabilities on which the long-term security of any nation still ultimately depends.

To demonstrate this, just add a few more geopolitical variables to the pot - on top of climate change and declining availability of oil. Just before Christmas, we heard that the Chinese economy grew by 16.5% last year - almost twice as fast as official figures. Oil imports have soared correspondingly, and will keep on rising. China is no longer self-sufficient in food. As meat consumption rockets (from 4kg per person 40 years ago to nearly 60kg today), so too do imports of grain and soya. Competition for land and water has never been fiercer; protests and riots over land use are now commonplace.

Answer 5

A catalytic converter uses platinum.

I think you would look good with a platinum ring.

Answer 6

Try putting a rope around your neck stand on a chair and then when your comfortable, just kick the chair away Now that's one way you could help save the planet :- )

Answer 7

Cows would be better off with them, as they produce more gases than cars or something.