Ok, Sweden gets cold in the winter, but COME ON..!!
The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks in Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden. [...]Last year marked a new record for Stockholm’s rabbit cull, with nearly 6,000 rabbits, mostly from Kungsholmen, being removed from Stockholm’s parks.
But rather than simply disposing of the dead rabbits, the city instead froze them for eventual transport to a special heating plant in Karlskoga in central Sweden, where the bunny bodies are then burned as a form of bioenergy.
Comment by Challeron on 10/16 @ 12:37 am #
Wait until Obeyme makes you drive cars that burn bunny pee….
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/16 @ 12:52 am #
The bunnies probably provided about 50-60% of their “biofuel” as ice cubes. Hopefully they were really fat.
Comment by dicentra on 10/16 @ 1:18 am #
You has linked the bunny jpg, not the article.
But the bunny is worth seeing twice.
Comment by -Ed. on 10/16 @ 3:55 am #
That must stink to high heaven! Unless they installed air scrubbers on the bunny heating plant. That would be hare air care, but you knew that already.
Comment by JD on 10/16 @ 4:01 am #
PETA could not be reached for comment.
Comment by Roland THTG on 10/16 @ 5:05 am #
I’ve been heating my home for years using bunnies and kittens.
What’s the problem?
It’s a renewable resource, no?
Comment by Rusty on 10/16 @ 5:13 am #
Useless old people make the best fuel. They’re already dry and brittle. And soon it will be legal! What better way to heat your home than to cremate grandma,IN YOUR OWN FIREPLACE!
Comment by Rusty on 10/16 @ 5:15 am #
I love the smell of burning rabbits in the morning. It smells like………………………hassenpfeffer.
Comment by serr8d on 10/16 @ 5:19 am #
Cool. I mean, thoughtful.
There’s a reason we see so many bunnies. They exist as 1st order consumers, to directly convert greenery to energy for easier consumption by higher-order consumers. For dead bunnies to not serve that purpose is wasteful. We don’t want waste, do we?
This way, dead bunnies quickly complete their assigned cycle.
Comment by serr8d on 10/16 @ 5:22 am #
I didn’t like that chart. Damned envirowhacks have redesigned even basic informational pictographs to suit their agendas.
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/16 @ 5:32 am #
Gives a whole new twist to, LOOK BUNNIES!11!1!eleventy; essentially what many of the threadjacking distractions of the trolliverse reduce to…
Maybe we could burn the trolls for fuel instead?
I can feel a denouncement coming in the force…
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/16 @ 5:33 am #
Just from a geeky engneering point of view, I wonder if the energy recovered is equal to that expended freezing them, and keeping them on ice..?
What’s the carbon footprint there Messer’s greenie-pants?!?
Comment by Rusty on 10/16 @ 5:54 am #
That’s an intiguing question, Bob. If they have to use a refrigeration unit to store them, Then I bet there is an overall net loss of efficientcy. Do they leave them outside in the cold to freeze? Then there might be a small net gain. We have to remember that a lot of the mass is water and is threfore not capable of burning. Indeed the carcasses have to be heated sufficiently to drive all the moisture out.Perhaps if it is sufficiently cold enough the winter air will freeze dry them, but I still fail to see how a mass so small could provide any energy to do any useful work. Now whales on the otherhand……
Comment by Carin on 10/16 @ 5:58 am #
OT – We’ve gotta turn our tvs off next week. Big Hollywood’s on it.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/16 @ 6:09 am #
wait.
How does a cadaver, of any sort, burn, which implies a release of energy?
Comment by serr8d on 10/16 @ 6:12 am #
It’s an accelerated oxidation process, N. O’Brain. Like rusting, only warmer.
Comment by serr8d on 10/16 @ 6:17 am #
Hmmmph. I’ll have to turn mine on first.
But I did watch a couple innings of the Dodgers – Phillies game last night. If we want to see a NY-LA World Series, they’d better get busy this afternoon.
Comment by william on 10/16 @ 6:17 am #
We’ve got thousands of deer running roughshod all over Western Pennsylvania. When the democrats shut down the coal industry, Bambi’s going to be warming my backside.
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/16 @ 6:21 am #
Remember the disco song, “Burn, bunny, burn!”
OH?
Never mind.
Comment by Pablo on 10/16 @ 6:24 am #
You know, what them bunnies need is some community organizing. Get me Cass Sunstein. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!!!!!
BTW, Darleen, did you mean to say “IIIKKKEEEEAAAAAHHHH!!”?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/16 @ 6:24 am #
Comment by william on 10/16 @ 6:17 am #
Where abouts?
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/16 @ 6:29 am #
Wouldn’t it be more efficient to eat the bunnies?
Comment by Roland THTG on 10/16 @ 6:35 am #
Look, I’m all for eating tasty bunnies but these are homeless street bunnies.
No nutritional value.
Comment by Darleen on 10/16 @ 6:56 am #
link fixed….
thanks dicentra
Comment by BJTexs on 10/16 @ 7:03 am #
I say we adopt a new response. Whenever a troll derails a topic we go with BURNING BUNNIES!!11ELEVENTY!!111
Childhood trauma alert: My Portuguese grandmother (Vovo) raised rabbits. My job as a little kid was to feed them and clean the cages. One day I made the terrible, terrible connection between Fluffy and Vovo’s awesome rabbit stew.
Um … I still ate the stew. Hey, it was delicious!
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 10/16 @ 7:04 am #
Now we know where all those disgraced neocons from Bush’s defense dept fled to!!!!!!
Life (as a municipal heating plant operator) in a northern town
Comment by BJTexs on 10/16 @ 7:04 am #
Don’t look at me like that, happyfeet and maggie!
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/16 @ 7:05 am #
I doubt very much that a tasty stew could not be made from homeless street bunnies. If Sam Kinison were still with us, he’d be all for it.
Comment by SarahW on 10/16 @ 7:09 am #
Bunnies?
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/16 @ 7:30 am #
Wonder if they skin them for the pelts, first.
Comment by ccs on 10/16 @ 7:32 am #
So these are like hobo type bunnies? Jeff could probably help out.
Comment by Rusty on 10/16 @ 8:19 am #
#30
Sadly, no. But they do make a satisfying popping sound as the burst!
wait.
How does a cadaver, of any sort, burn, which implies a release of energy?
Exactly. How much energy is wasted getting the critter to the temperature where its fats will ignite and continue the process. I’m thinkin that Bugs-as-fuel isn’t really such a green idea.
Comment by Joe on 10/16 @ 8:29 am #
The ovens at some German camps operated that way too. But they did not use bunnies.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/16 @ 8:49 am #
BUNNICIDE!!!
Comment by cranky-d on 10/16 @ 9:08 am #
This sounds like bunk to me. Not that it isn’t happening, but that you could get a net positive energy result from this process. I think it more likely that burning them is just an easier method of disposal. Maybe there is some kind of social taboo being circumvented here using energy generation as an excuse.
Comment by SporkLift Driver on 10/16 @ 9:51 am #
I think Cranky-d is right the bunny ash would be less of a problem in the landfill and may even make a nice fertilizer – potasium.
Comment by Paul Moore on 10/16 @ 11:37 am #
I have cremated a few animals in my time. They do burn, but you need a hot fire to ignite the fat. Saving the pelts and stewing the meat seems less wasteful though. Why not just an extended hunting season?
I guess they just don’t think the way we do.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/16 @ 11:54 am #
I had a friend what had a big fluffy bunny as a pet. And peacocks. The peacocks would get stuck in the trees and the bunny was a terrifyingly large bunny what wasn’t afraid of people cause he associated people with food. One time his mom asked me to go get a peacock out of a tree and I’m trying to knock the peacock out of the tree with a broom and it’s getting more and more pissed in a vicious peacocky way and this terrifyingly large bunny kept bunnying towards me and I was a little concerned about my welfare I don’t mind saying.
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/16 @ 1:40 pm #
HF, that sounds like a Jim Beam-TexMexChili nightmare.
Comment by Adriane on 10/16 @ 2:01 pm #
It’s JUST a Baby Bunny !!!!
Comment by Frontman on 10/16 @ 2:39 pm #
#38-HF
David Lynch, call your office…
Comment by Jeff Y. on 10/16 @ 4:41 pm #
[close up on Detective Thorn's face]
[fade back]
It’s bunnies! Electricity is made out of bunnies! They’ re making our electricity out of bunnies. Next thing they’ll be breeding bunnies like irresponsible environmentalists!
Comment by Swen Swenson on 10/16 @ 4:43 pm #
The InstaPundit agreed with you. Said he “Throw another dog on the fire!”
Comment by Benedick on 10/16 @ 7:54 pm #
Look! Energy! (eleventy)
Comment by Pablo on 10/16 @ 9:01 pm #
You need to look into some self-empowerment, ‘feets.
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Comment by happyfeet on 10/16 @ 9:23 pm #
It was just too much at once I think. Too much nature. Nature is treacherous. We’ve talked about that before.
Comment by tureNa on 10/16 @ 11:49 pm #
knock-knock-knock
(((Candygram)))
Comment by Mikee on 10/20 @ 10:51 am #
Here in central Texas, rabbits start breeding early in Spring and continue until late in Fall. Every year we have multiple generations that are conceived, born, grow to maturity, breed and carry on their rabbit lives.
I have two cats. They love to go out at night to kill baby rabbits which they then eat on my front porch, leaving behind only the little lower intestines (and a foot or an ear every once in a while). They generally eat the whole thing, fur and all, crunching their way downwards from the head (eaten skull bones and all) to the hind feet. They do so several times a week, from early Spring until late Fall. They have eaten as many so for 9 years. The rabbit population in the meadow behind my home has not been noticeably reduced by these feline depredations.
Bunnies, for those of you who do not watch nature shows, are known as “fast food” to all carnivores.
Comment by sdferr on 10/20 @ 10:54 am #
Heh. On account of all those helpless plants on which the bunnies depredate out there.