Bio Diesel application in England

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Not a question at all- just saw this on the internet and thought someone else mind find it of interest.

Cooking Oil, Chicken to Power Supermarket Trucks

Reuters

LONDON (Dec. 5) - British supermarket chain Asda said on Wednesday it would be using chicken waste and used cooking oil to power its delivery trucks.

Asda's Environment Manager Ian Bowles said the chain's 258 stores in the United Kingdom generated 138,000 liters of chicken waste and cooking fat, which after April would be transformed into biodiesel and used to fuel delivery lorries. ''Historically, chicken waste and used cooking fat from our in-store rotisseries and canteens has gone to landfills but now we have a more sustainable option ... turning it into environmentally friendly fuel,'' Bowles told Reuters.

''This is very, very clean fuel using real cutting edge technology,'' he said adding there was huge future scope to process waste food into fuel. The used cooking oil is subject to a process called esterification, in which hydro and carbon molecules are altered, yielding product similar to diesel oil. ''The UK produces 50-90 million liters of waste cooking oil a year and it seems like an awful waste of resource to just send it away to landfills or pour it down the sink,'' Bowles said.

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), December 11, 2001

Answers

Hooray for the Brits! ... and a POX on the greedy, slick US "leaders" whose only REAL concern is for greasing their road to riches in oilslicks. Remember how the Oil industry buried the Steam Engine!! Hooray for Japan, too! ... whose intelligence, I bet, can come up with the technology the world needs - IN SPITE of our freakin control freaks opposition. What a hilarious twist of fate if our country ends up running ON chicken-stuff instead of being FED chicken-stuff by our "leaders"........ LOL

-- M.A. Stone (ibemee@webtv.net), March 11, 2002.

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