We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Does anyone know why there isn't more of this sort of thing? There must be a huge amount of used cooking oil out there. I remember hearing about this sort of thing years ago (doesn't Willie Nelson's bus run on cooking oil?) and then the focus seemed to shift to growing crops specifically for biofuel rather than sourcing it from pre-used oil.
Does anyone know why there isn't more of this sort of thing? There must be a huge amount of used cooking oil out there. I remember hearing about this sort of thing years ago (doesn't Willie Nelson's bus run on cooking oil?) and then the focus seemed to shift to growing crops specifically for biofuel rather than sourcing it from pre-used oil.
But what the hell does Willie Nelson run on?
There is a collection service in Ireland,has been for years but I have no idea of the scale or economics of the business,I have only seen their truck(s) on the road
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Does anyone know why there isn't more of this sort of thing? There must be a huge amount of used cooking oil out there.
Perhaps not as much as you think.
On the basis of a few simple calculations it might fuel about 1% of passenger cars in USA. If you put commercial vehicles into the mix, it would be less than that.
Scale.......
I have me reservations about living on fish and chips just so we can have biodiesel.Isn't there another way to save the planet? Maybe Black Pudding or Tripe and Wassand or composted corpses?
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