Citipaper has a great story describing how the owner uses old vegetable oil as a fuel.
"So it happened that in fall 2001, when he saw several containers of old fryer oil by the back door at Monk's Café in Center City, it struck him that vegetable oil equals fire, which equals heat. Couldn't old oil therefore be reused to good effect as fuel for, say, a greenhouse? He knew that crankcase oil and engine drain oil get reused to make heating fuel. "I thought, Why wouldn't vegetable oil burn in a regular waste-oil heater?' I knew there had to be a way to do it," he explains."
He's really thinking "out of the bun."
It's substance over style here at the box. In a hectic and busy world, we have no time to double check our spelling.
Besides, I know where you live!
Posted by: Lunchbox | September 22, 2003 at 09:54 PM
Check your spelling (hint: vegetable)
Posted by: Mrs. Hamster | September 22, 2003 at 06:08 PM
hey lunchbox,
it seems that there's a whole movement out there with this veggie oil fuel stuff. there are 100 'biodiesel' fuel stations in the US already that use the stuff, while Germans have 1,000 (good ol' Nazi engineering!!)...check out the article below from outside magazine's sept issue - it's all about one man's efforts in Telluride. the guy's website (www.grassolean.com) also has some neat info...
outside mag article:
http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200309/200309_grease_1.html
Posted by: berkserker | September 21, 2003 at 08:01 AM