Vegetable oil powered restaurant

Title: Vegetable oil powered restaurant

Published: Fri, 4 Jul 2008

Description: (Peter Howe, NECN: Concord, NH) - One New England restaurant celebrated July Fourth with a commitment to saving the environment. The Red Blazer restaurant in New Hampshire's capital opened for the holiday. But they marked Independence Day...

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" And travelers aren't the only ones wishing they could be free yet have to energy prices one New England restaurant celebrated July 4. By shutting off its electricity Peter how has more the bread -- restaurant interest capital opened for the holiday."

" But they marked Independence Day by declaring energy independence for the whole two -- lunch fresh they shut off the until electric connection. And fired at the diesel generator. But it's done diesel fuel keep in the lifetime. -- oil supply comes from here. The fry later. When we're done using it goes right downstairs that we knew that if you'll. Sixty gallons a week of vegetable. This date powering the electric generator other times to keep hot water for the that you watch we can just the ballgame grew weak the weak side with the will -- right you don't want. Just above the -- trial lawyer oil can be burned as fuel it has to be filtered to clean up crumbs from when your breaks and fried clams that it can replace heating oil or diesel. -- and aces on the 500 seat restaurant fifty years he's gung ho about going green. Recycling everything energy saving light bulbs even."

" A whole restaurant powered by cooking oil I think it's great because there it's all a waste anyway you know so they can't find a way to get rid of it."

" I've never eventual loyalists if you like but but I saw the sign outside that -- there were cooking vegetable. What makes this all possible listed vegetable oil has about 92% of the energy content of home heating oil or its close chemical cousin diesel fuel. And anything that runs on diesel with a right modifications can also run on vegetable oil. Vegetable oil has huge potentials of fuel source it's estimated the US produces. Three billion gallons a year of waste vegetable oil that's a lot of snack food factories and fried food restaurants. Theoretically what's cleaned up that's enough fuel to heat three million homes a year -- fuel seven million diesel cars. And if you run the red blazer every extra -- to find -- ranger Friday had a -- self is that much more free fuel for the furnace in Concord, New Hampshire Peter Howell and ASEAN"

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