Green Options » URbiodiesel http://greenoptions.com/tag/urbiodiesel Posts tagged 'URbiodiesel' Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:02:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Leftover Grease Powers University Bus and Research http://gas2.org/2009/04/17/leftover-grease-powers-university-bus-and-research/ http://gas2.org/2009/04/17/leftover-grease-powers-university-bus-and-research/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:02:09 +0000 Dave Tyler http://gas2.org/2009/04/17/leftover-grease-powers-university-bus-and-research/ This shuttle bus at the University of Rochester will be powered by dining hall grease

At most college dining halls, they’ll fry just about anything.

Wings, mozzarella sticks, fries and onion rings. Old shoe leather (wait, maybe that’s just a memory of how things tasted at my college dining hall.) All that frying leaves a lot of leftover grease and oil.

At the University of Rochester, a group of students used that oil as the foundation for a business plan that has produced both a biodiesel powered shuttle bus and a new building for biofuel experimentation. The project will hit a milestone on Earth Day, when university President Joel Seligman will help send the shuttle bus off on its first trips around campus, including a tour of the new building.

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