The 6 Creepiest Ways They're Harvesting Electricity (http://www.cracked.com/article_19761_the-6-creepiest-ways-theyre-harvesting-electricity.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage)
By: Mike Haring, Dwayne Hoover | April 21, 2012 | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_19761_the-6-creepiest-ways-theyre-harvesting-electricity.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage)
As the threat of global warming and other environmental catastrophes grow more and more apparent, science is looking ever more desperately for things to turn into electricity that don't involve murdering everything horribly as a side effect. And trust us when we say nothing is off the table as far as options go. Not even ...
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#5. Dead Bunnies Paging Ptarmigan. Ptarmigan, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
If you thought that alternative energy was a bunch of tree-hugging-hippie crap, then tell that to the Swedish. The land of chocolate and meatballs has a novel interpretation of the concept of green energy that has environmentalists shifting uncomfortably in their hemp pants -- killing fluffy bunnies for power.
There, invasive species like rabbits are hunted down like the vermin they are, then the corpses are "crushed, ground and then pumped into a boiler where it is burned together with wood chips, peat or other waste to produce heat." And it's not just rabbits. Reindeer, horses, the odd unicorn ... nothing is too magical to be "rendered" and burned to keep the Wi-Fi on at the Swedish Starbucks.
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Sounded like the Ptarmigan reich's version of Auschwitz or something.