Revolution Green

In 1996, Bob King was trying to remove flammable cooking waste from the Central Maui Landfill and became in his words, an "alchmeist turning garbage into gold." A diesel mechanic, King converted the gunk into fuel, founded Pacific Biodiesel with his wife Kelly at a time when renewable energy still languished in the shadow of cheap oil, created the first biodiesel pumping station, and quite possibly entered American history.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• biodiesel
• willie
• nelson
• maui
• green
• revolution

[circusboy90210]

yellow grease would only fuel us for one day. sadly.

[Patrickol2]

I got to meet the person who did this movie

[hopper1]

Technically, there is modifications needed, but they're small. Any fuel higher than a B20 blend (20% biodiesel mixed with 80% petroleum diesel) requires a complete fuel system cleaning before use. It will also need to be treated for cold weather operation far earlier than petroleum diesel. Bacteria can also cause problems, but is easily eliminated.

[sustainabletech]

News Flash: McDonalds is converting all its UK fleet to run on biodiesel made on recycled grease from its restaurants.

[greyflcn]

Yeah but even if we took all the waste vegetable oil and waste tallow we have in the US that'd meet like 0.3% of current US gasoline+diesel demand.

While thats plenty for hobbyists to mess around with, on a national scale thats just dregs.

[StaffMemberForADay]

I've seen the film. From what I got, is that Biodiesel takes wasted vegetable oil, recycles it into fuel that you can run in a standard diesel engine w/no modification. Heck, if McDonald's got into the game, they could put Exxon out of business.

[greyflcn]

So what arguements did this movie use to say that biodiesel is worthwhile.

I don't think it's worthwhile, convince me.