Biodiesel from Blintzes

Meatballs to Motors
By Marc Zakian

Thursday October 18, 2007
The Guardian (extract)

"Amid the north London hinterland of industrial estates and steel-shed
superstores, the capital's lowest-priced diesel fuel is brewing. At
90.5p, it is 9p a litre less than the London average. It is also
greener - producing far fewer toxic emissions than conventional
fuels.
Pure Fuels is London's first - and, to date, only - consumer biodiesel
producer. It is the vision of Tom Lasica, a former TV documentary
maker and his cameraman colleague Kees 't Hooft. The pair caught the
biodiesel bug in Ukraine. "We were filming an agricultural project,
and tried to convince the farmers to turn their crop waste into diesel
fuel," says Lasica. "Then it occurred to us that we should do the same
thing in our own backyard."
They used their own money to start Pure Fuels. Novices to the
chemistry of converting used oil to biodiesel, their learning curve
was at times extremely steep. "We got lots of advice from the
biodiesel community," explains Lasica. "But grants aimed at green-
energy projects were a bureaucratic vicious circle - unworkable for
recycled eco-fuel production. Other than the 20p a litre reduction in
fuel duty given to all biofuels, we have had no government
assistance."
Pure Fuels started selling biodiesel to the public in February this
year. When I arrive at the industrial unit, Lasica is decanting a
batch of used cooking oil dropped off by a neighbouring kosher
catering company. In 24 hours the oil will go from meatballs to
motors....."

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving/story/0,,2193562,00.html

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