FuelPod 2: Run you car on chip fat
No, that's not an unusually high-tech coffee machine you're looking at: it could in fact be your own personal biofuel maker!
If you're willing to shell out £1,750 ($3,607), that is. But think of the savings on petrol? The FuelPod2 is based on technology from a long tradition of engineering and agricultural types who've been making their own fuel for years, and turns used chip fat and other edible cooking oils into clean, green energy you can run you car on. Since you'll presumably be sourcing these oils from your own kitchen, there's no immediate worry about starvation in other parts of the world, and the C02 saving is incredible.
The FuelPod2 makes up to 50 litres of fuel a day and according to the makers, uses "external, thermostatically-controlled band heaters to pre-heat the oil, which ensures that the warming takes places prior to the addition of chemicals". I'm guess that anything else would cause a nasty accident, but the makers assure us it is "safe".
Chocolate sprinkles with that?
[Via Engadget]
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