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Biodiesel Boom Starts New Trend: Nasty, Used Grease Theft

August 8th, 2008 No Comments

Rotting, leftover fryer grease has turned into gold in the race to our energy future — and thieves have taken notice.

Yellow grease biodiesel

It’s early in the pre-dawn dark hours of the morning. A group of Northern California pseudohippies just finished a game of Zonk — or rather, the game just stopped because somebody quoted a line from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and everybody forgot what they were doing.

Yet, by a stroke of luck, the conversation about Harold and Kumar reminds the group of their real reason for staying up so late. They pack into a truck and head down to the local fast food joint looking to load up — but it’s not the food they’re loading up on, it’s the nasty, half-rotted, leftover fryer grease.

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Cellulosic Ethanol Primer: I Like the Name “Celluline”

August 7th, 2008 No Comments

Sheesh. It seems that everybody and their brothers are ethanol experts these days. But what drives me nuts is that when people are talking about ethanol, they don’t seem to know what type of ethanol they’re talking about.
It’s sad because the widespread misinformation and misunderstanding is killing popular opinion for biofuels in general right now [...]

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