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RV Processes Own Fuel on Cross-Country Trip

Posted by Zonk on from the one-point-twenty-one-jiggawatts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Frybrid has realized the dream of Dr. Emmet Brown's Delorean: putting garbage directly into your vehicle, and have it be turned into directly into fuel. This past fall, Frybrid installed a system into a 40' luxury RV that sucked up waste vegetable oil from the back of restaurants, removed the water and filtered it, and then burned the dry and cleaned vegetable oil as fuel. The family drove their converted RV from Seattle to Rhode Island on $47 worth of diesel fuel. Plans are underway for a smaller version of the system to fit in the bed of a pickup truck."

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  1. Is there a way to... by Rastignac · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...input garbage directly into my browser, and have it turned directly into a "+5 insightful" comment ? So funny comment like this one... err... oops.. No way ? Sorry. ;)

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  2. Re:IF by zeromorph · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep, and the news will always report the international market price for french fries per barrel.

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  3. What I'm more interested in is... by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can it travel through time when it reaches 88MPH?

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  4. Re:Frybrid? by polar+red · · Score: 2, Funny

    vegetable oil ?

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