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Energy Freedom Fries: Is this Cooking Oil Powered Speed Car the Missing Ingredient in the Energy Mix?
Planet Forward member Dan Gray, MPGomatic, shares an innovation that goes from the fryer to the racetrack – a racecar that is powered on heated cooking oil. What if we supersized this innovation? Do you think it could help the U.S. place first in the race to a clean energy future?
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On March 2nd, 2011 at 7:18 pm John Said:
You cannot scale this up to make any significant impact. Simply put, there is not enough used fryer oil available to run any substantial number of vehicles. Great for small scale use, but once more than a few individuals try to do this the there won’t be enough “fuel” to keep up with demand.
On March 2nd, 2011 at 7:19 pm Ira Said:
This is an idea I have seen many times. Since people eat a lot of fried foods there will be, at least for a while, a good supply of waste oil to run vehicles.
If there comes a time when this becomes more widespread, my fear is that
this type of oil will be produced for direct use in vehicles. This would be a problem with many bio-diesel fuels.
I would be interested to hear if the technique could be used with fuels derived from bio-waste. I see no problem with ever running out of that.
On March 2nd, 2011 at 7:29 pm Ira Said:
I just viewed a piece on using bio-waste to make vehicle fuel.
They take waste from growing things like corn to make sugar.
The sugar is then fermented to make alcohol.
While this process is more involved than simply collecting the waste oil
and filtering it, anything we can do to get us off foreign oil is all to the good.
Maybe these two groups should get together.
http://planetforward.org/idea/president-of-novozymes-agriculture-waste-can-create-fuel/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=planet%2Bforward