12-05-2001, 11:48 AM | #1 |
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Wednesday December 5 10:25 AM ET
Cooking Oil, Chicken to Power Supermarket Trucks LONDON (Reuters) - 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.
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12-05-2001, 11:51 AM | #2 |
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There are similar pilot programs all over the USA too, right now its not efficient enough to make it work, but it is panning out as a proof of concept. Some day when Petro-Oil is actually scarce I suspect that this will be one of the replacements, that and various forms of agro-waste reclimation types of techs.
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12-05-2001, 03:42 PM | #3 |
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Sounds like a great idea, but I bet the smell of a backfire is awful [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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12-08-2001, 12:55 AM | #4 |
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I dont get how people can use wasted shit to power things up
they dont have any energy contained within, power up what...??? |
12-08-2001, 01:07 AM | #5 |
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quote: well, petrol comes from crude oil right? and they're using animal and vegetable oil to create a similar fuel. these oils are very high in calories/kilojules which are units of energy...
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12-08-2001, 01:21 AM | #6 |
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All matter has energy, in fact some physicists believe that matter is just congealed energy. They are working on using hydrogen as a fuel source. Taking it out of water and putting it back in. Very efficient, if they can figure out how to do it. Of course public opinion with the hindenburg is still high, even though the helium wasnt the reason it exploded.
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12-08-2001, 02:35 AM | #7 |
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quote: To my knowledge they've already made the first Hydrogen/Oxygen engines, perfectly clean, the only waste product is water. The reason that we're not seeing them however is, as far as I know, that the large oil companies have bought the patent to protect their profits. |
12-08-2001, 02:43 AM | #8 |
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quote: Yes you're right, but we're also not seeing them is because it is very hard to find a petrol station which supplies compressed hydrogen. But of course you could do it through electrolysis of water, so I guess it is just the oil companies are afraid to lose their profits.
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quote: Of course, petrol stations would have to be modified/upgraded to provide this new fuel, but that couldn't be that hard, could it? |
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