The Marvelous Chicken-powered Motorcar!

      我的日志 2007-12-24 11:29

RIGHT: Who needs a tiger in their tank? Harold Bate, chicken farmer and inventor from Devonshire, England says that you can power your motor vehicles with droppings from chickens, pigs or any other animal of your choice Fueling dispenser equipment. . . even with your own waste! To prove his statement is no idle boast, Harold has been operating a 1953 Hillman and a, five-ton truck on methane gas generated by decomposing pig and chicken Flow meter  manure for years. He claims that the equivalent of a gallon of high-test gasoline costs him only about 3and that the low-cost methane makes his vehicles run faster, cleaner and better than they operate on "store bought" fuel Gas nozzle. Mr. Bate stands beside his famous Hillman Lpg nozzle in the photo above.

 

Harold Bate was born in 1908 in the city of Stoke in England's industrial midlands. He left school at the age of 14 to work as an apprentice mechanic with the Potteries Traction Company Fuel pump. Here he learned many basic engineering skills working on the old streetcars before becoming a maintenance engineer with the Stafford Coal and Iron Company Medical Packaging . While with Stafford Gear pump , Bate spent his spare time developing Submarine escape devices and advanced independent suspension systems for automobiles

 

In 1937, Harold Bate Control valve lost a leg in a driving accident. This would have been the beginning of an insurmountable Gas meter infirmity for many people ...but not for Harold Ball valve . Ten years later..with wife, young daughter and cane--he set out for the grandest adventure of all: a driving tour of Africa.

 

"We travelled in an old ex-Army Butterfly valve jeep," says Bate, "and, in eight years, drove 380,000 miles. It was hard pharmaceutical Packaging , it was hot and--at times--it was dangerous ...but we wouldn't have missed it Gate valve for the world. We loved every minute. Our daughter learnt more out there than she ever would have in school."

 

While in Africa, Bate Globe valve prospected for gold and uranium Check valve in Rhodesia and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and--on more than one occasion--the family was attacked by bandits and had to fight for their lives. For one long stretch, they lived off what wild game they could hunt in mile after mile of mango swamps (well stocked with poisonous snakes) through Magnetic valve which they passed.

 

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