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Have Your Bacon and Drive It Too

Posted by michael on from the oink-oink dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Love ham, bacon and/or sausage? Now you can share that joy with your car. Smithfield is going to turn the waste from 500,000 hogs/year into biodiesel. For those of you who don't know about biodiesel check out this site on how to make your own."

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  1. Biodiesel info by j-turkey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For other really intersting biodiesel info, check out The Grease Car

    --Turkey
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    -Turkey

  2. Sh*t pipes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    "The Utah facility is a specially suited location for this because we are able to order the waste in pipes,"

    So there are pipes traversing Utah which carry pig... er... waste? From the farms to... where? Landfills?