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May 6, 2009 - Chocolate Thunder

Scientists unveiled on Tuesday what they hope will be one of the world's fastest biofuel vehicles, powered by waste from chocolate factories and made partly from plant fibers. Its makers hope the racer will go 145 mph and give manufacturers ideas about how to build more ecologically friendly vehicles.

Makes for an eye catching headline, but I bet the major component of the fuel are the vegetable oils and you could have thrown just about any other type of food waste in there to "flavor" the fuel. Then again, everyone likes chocolate don't they?

Read more at the Associated Press

2:47 am | Categories: alternative fuels
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pf_flyer - May 12, 2009 2:28 am

Sort of like trying to turn food into ethanol that doesn't cut oil use since the 10% ethanol blend has cut my mileage by 10%. Dumb, dumb idea

sarahsmile90 - May 11, 2009 4:07 pm

Sounds like a complete waste of chocolate...lets think about that alternative.

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