(Notícia em Inglês)
NEXT time you fire-up a barbecue at a public park you may be helping fuel a council truck.
The fat that drips off your steaks and snags will be collected and sent to a biofuel plant where it will be turned into biofuel which will then be pumped into light trucks owned by Mackay Regional Council.
It may sound like a novel idea, but Year 11 and 12 engineering students at Mackay’s CQ TAFE campus are building a biofuel plant which will do exactly that.
The portable biofuel plant will be built to Australian standard to produce 3500 litres of biodiesel a week.
About 200 litres of biodiesel would be needed to run four light council trucks a week.
The biofuel plant will cost about $60,000 and take a year to build and already many businesses have pledged support.
Hahn Environmental Services are about to set up in Mackay and will distribute cooking oil bins at takeaway shops to provide students with cooking oil to process at the plant.
Fat from barbecues in parks will also be collected.
dailymercury.com.au»
NEXT time you fire-up a barbecue at a public park you may be helping fuel a council truck.
The fat that drips off your steaks and snags will be collected and sent to a biofuel plant where it will be turned into biofuel which will then be pumped into light trucks owned by Mackay Regional Council.
It may sound like a novel idea, but Year 11 and 12 engineering students at Mackay’s CQ TAFE campus are building a biofuel plant which will do exactly that.
The portable biofuel plant will be built to Australian standard to produce 3500 litres of biodiesel a week.
About 200 litres of biodiesel would be needed to run four light council trucks a week.
The biofuel plant will cost about $60,000 and take a year to build and already many businesses have pledged support.
Hahn Environmental Services are about to set up in Mackay and will distribute cooking oil bins at takeaway shops to provide students with cooking oil to process at the plant.
Fat from barbecues in parks will also be collected.
dailymercury.com.au»