blog.wired.com — A new garage-engineered generator burns the waste oil from restaurants' deep fryers to generate electricity and hot water. Put 80 gallons of grease into the Vegawatt and its creators promise that it will generate about five kilowatts of power.
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junkneoJan 8, 2009
Energy conservation will be a big part of the next decade. Decentralized generation of power like those in this artcle are essential since the US has to spend lot of money in rebuilding the old electricity grids.
sv650touringJan 9, 2009
As opposed to the fresh mountain air that wafts out of them now? Restaurants already smell a lot worse than diesel exhaust.
hmtksteveJan 9, 2009
Guess the market for grease burning cars will now evaporate?
jperetJan 9, 2009
A ton of oil cleaning technology is built in. It can accept the nastiest oil you have and work just fine.
jperetJan 9, 2009
What is the value to a restaurant owner if you are offering to take the oil away for free for use in your car? The car owner gets the value, the restaurant owner gets nothing. This piece of equipment changes that equation, now the restaurant owner gets to keep the value.
jperetJan 9, 2009
You put 80 gallons a week of WVO into it, and it produces 5 KW continuously (or almost). You put the oil into the machine when you take it out of your deep fryers. every hour it runs it produce 5 kwh. It is a 5 kw generator.
lornaliJan 10, 2009
Very innovative