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Article: Vehicle run by vegetable oil promotes alternative energy at U. Utah
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- February 7, 2006
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Andrew Thompson
University Wire
02-07-2006
(Daily Utah Chronicle) (U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY -- A bus using oil not from the soil visited the University of Utah campus on Feb. 1. The National Outdoor Leadership School came to the U to promote their programs from a bus powered primarily by recycled vegetable oil.
The bus has three fuel tanks: a 100-gallon tank for diesel fuel, a 90-gallon tank for vegetable oil and another tank to heat and filter the vegetable oil.
"In the morning we start the engine on diesel, and once the engine heats up, we heat up the vegetable oil," said Teal Maxwell, a NOLS member from Massachusetts. "Then about 10 minutes into our drive in the morning, we're able to flip ...