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The motorcycle fueled by bacon grease!
From the article:
According to the bacon bike Tumblr, making bacon fuel is pretty simple. The first step was to make a lot of bacon. Sounds like a dream job, right? Then they took the leftover grease and worked with Bio-Blend Fuels in Wisconsin to refine the bacon into 100% biodiesel. “The fuel is an environmentally safe alternative to conventional diesel fuel,” according to the website. “We turned about 275 gallons of bacon grease into 250 gallons of engine pumping b100 bacon bio diesel.”
Video from local news.
It get 75 miles to the pound.
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(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday September 18 2014, @07:59PM
When you lay on the throttle, does it leave the glorius scent of bacon in it's wake?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by nyder on Thursday September 18 2014, @08:08PM
According to the article yes, it does smell like bacon.
nice.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday September 18 2014, @08:17PM
Let's hope you're a law-abiding biker, because the cops won't ever be far behind...
How much energy does it take to make a gallon of bacon grease?
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday September 18 2014, @08:36PM
You'd never be able to evade the cops if the bike was fueled with the grease donuts are fried in. Of course, if you are pulled over you can always say, "Bad cop! No donuts for you!"
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Thursday September 18 2014, @08:45PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by epl on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:15PM
Considering we already raise and slaughter the pig and then eat the bacon, I think it only fair to count the extra processing and transport required only. The grease was a waste product of making and consuming the bacon; gathering, transporting and processing are the steps added to make it into the biofuel. I do want to know how much energy that takes, but I need to go make a sandwich first.
(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:30PM
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Friday September 19 2014, @02:25AM
If you want to be thorough, you should also include the energy cost of the pig farmer's breakfast. Since the breakfast contained bacon, we have to count the energy that went into that bacon, which gets us into an endless recursion loop. So the energy required to make the bacon fuel approaches infinity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @11:20AM
Since the breakfast contained bacon, we have to count the energy that went into that bacon, which gets us into an endless recursion loop.
This is a good point. In life cycle assessment (LCA) there is a suggestion to use a input-output model to solve these long and often cyclic chains. This stuff won Wassily Leontief the Nobel prize in economics in 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIOLCA [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @08:16PM
The french fry grease ones smell like glorious french fries :)
Neat 'hack' considering diesel was basically invented to run on peanut oil.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @03:09AM
Anyone who has tried to use non-petroleum fuel in a cold climate knows that for the last few minutes of operation you need to switch over to the dead dinosaurs tank so that the bio-stuff isn't left in the fuel lines to congeal.
Forget to do that and you won't be going anywhere till the Spring thaw.
Other than that, using "waste" one more time is brilliant.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:51PM
...who wants to park that machine outside a high occupancy biker bar, go in and explain that it eats Hog belly?
(Score: 2) by EvilJim on Thursday September 18 2014, @10:47PM
If you tell 'em it runs on rendered pigz you might be ok. they might even bring you a few cop's bodies to process.
(Score: 4, Informative) by BradTheGeek on Thursday September 18 2014, @08:43PM
Pretty much any grease/oil can be made into "bio-diesel". Just because you did it with only bacon grease and not 500gal of tortilla fat from Salvador's Deli does not make it special. Just a gag.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:32PM
Literally!
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:00PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 4, Insightful) by paulej72 on Thursday September 18 2014, @09:16PM
Team Leader for SN Development
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday September 18 2014, @10:16PM
I suppose it would run on biodiesel made from doughnut eating cops! That's something many bikers could get onboard with!
(Score: 2) by hamsterdan on Thursday September 18 2014, @11:46PM
Brings a new meaning to riding a Hog...