Bacon as a fuel source.
Posted on 09/09/2014 7:35:14 AM PDT by null and void
These days there are so many alternative fuel sources — hydrogen, natural gas, and propane; alcohols such as ethanol, methanol, and butanol; vegetable and waste-derived oils; electricity; the list could go on.
Bacon as a fuel source.
One fuel alternative we’re probably not likely to have come across is bacon grease. Yes, bacon grease.
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Pierson on the bacon-fueled bike.
Actor Eric Pierson just drove his motorcycle from his home in Minnesota to San Diego for the Bacon Fest and Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. Doesn’t sound too special? Well, his motorcycle was powered by the bacon grease.
In order to get the bike up and running, bacon company and Bacon Fest sponsor Hormel Foods teamed up with a biodiesel company to refine the grease into this carbon-neutral automotive fuel.
The process is similar to converting cars to run on grease from fast food chains. Then they converted a diesel motorcycle, the 2011 Track T-800 CDI, to be more compatible with the bacon fuel.
How they made the fuel
First they had to make a lot of bacon. Then they took the leftover grease and worked with Bio-Blend Fuels in Wisconsin to refine the bacon into 100% biodiesel.
According to the Driven by Bacon website, “The fuel is an environmentally safe alternative to conventional diesel fuel. We turned about 275 gallons of bacon grease into 250 gallons of engine-pumping b100 bacon biodiesel.”
Not only was the fuel eco-friendly, but it also smelled like bacon while driving.
Although mostly conducted as a publicity stunt, the drive did draw attention to alternative fuel sources.
Pierson took a camera crew with him on the road to Bacon Fest and the entire trip was documented on his Tumblr account.
The crew made it to the Annual International Bacon Film Festival which was held on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Midway. Check Facebook for updates on when the Driven by Bacon film will be released.
“According to the Driven by Bacon website, “The fuel is an environmentally safe alternative to conventional diesel fuel. We turned about 275 gallons of bacon grease into 250 gallons of engine-pumping b100 bacon biodiesel.””
So how many pounds of bacon did it take to produce 275 gallons of bacon grease??? What was the cost per pound of bacon???
Today, fat from rendering plants and meat packers is sold to soap factories who use it as a base for making soap.
This is a pretty novel thing, actually.
Save money, help the environment, skirt gas taxes.
Hope he cruises a bunch round Dearborn, MI!
The cost is likely zero.
The bacon grease is looked at as a waste stream, requiring someone to come remove the waste from your business if you can’t sell it, which many can’t.
As such, you can probably take it for free (a logistics cost to the producer of the fuel).
Looking at waste streams to try and make something valuable from them is always a good thing.
That bike is not very halal.
“We turned about 275 gallons of bacon grease into 250 gallons of engine-pumping b100 bacon biodiesel.”
So the question is, “What was his mileage per gallon of bacon fuel?”
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*snicker*
One motorcycle spewing bacon exhaust is one thing. A million motorcycles spewing bacon grease on highways is Mr. Mayhem’s wet dream. Invest in studded tires, insurance and Hummers.
And loving it...
surprised he doesn't have a pack of dogs chasing him
As Homer Simpson might say...”Bacon...Is there anything it can’t do?”
That would really be OPG= Oinks per Gallon.
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