Thursday, December 14, 2006

Save Our Environment With Fat Cats

We all know how precious and fragile our environment is. Rain forests are disappearing, the water tables are dropping, animals keep extincting and prime time televisioin keeps getting crappier and crappier. I'm also worried about the hurricane producing factories like on the cover of Al Gore's movie. Who would build a factory like that? I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lex Luthor or some other criminal mastermind is behind it.

I do think there are good ideas out there, however, that over time just might make a difference. Running your car on french fry oil for instance. Pretty soon even political moderates will be converting their toyota camrys to run on the bio diesel hybrid stuff and not just liberal hippies in the north east.

I've also read about homes that have "green" roofs or stuff growing all over you roof. You basically live in something straight out of Lord of The Rings. I wonder if you still have to clean the gutters? And weeding out your roof may be a little tricky. I guess it helps the environment in some way. They even make them for your dog!

So last night as I pondering ways that I could do my part to help save the earth, I noticed my huge fat cat as he was lazily sleeping in my living room and the thought occurred to me. My cat must radiate tons of energy in the form of heat from all that body mass. Usually it's all lost into the sofa, the corner of my bed, or on occasion a lap. He's basically a big hot water bag that never needs to be reheated but is barely used. So....put my cat into a rubber bag that will distribute the energy more efficiently and then turn down the furnace and save all that oil. At night you just set the cat bag down near some food for a while and give the cat a chance to visit the litter box. You might be able to save 5% on your heating bill! Here's a sketch of what a prototype may look like.

Speaking of which it's starting to get cold in here....where's that cat of mine?...

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