Make French Fries And Get Fuel For Your Car!

OK, you can't make that much!

The Granby(Quebec, Canada) owner of the Duhamel rotisseries decided to recycle his cooking oil. So, instead of paying for his 350 liters/week of cooking oil to be taken care off, he now use it for fuel. For 7 months now, his 2 delivery cars and his personal car run on bio-diesel.

He took one year to find the good vegetable fuel that was supposed to warm up the house but found the economy was greater with his car. He found a recipe online but had to adapt it for his needs.

The recipe consist of 20% of wood alcohol (methanol) to used canola oil. Because it's very cold in the winter, he must add 20% of diesel.

Mr. Duhamel do the transformation himself in his small storage house. It takes 1h30 to make the recipe and 8 hours to ferment.

This fuel must be used in diesel cars. That why he bought 2 Smart for deliveries and a Jetta for him. In 3 years if it goes well, all of his 12 delivery cars will run on it. It cost about $130 in regular fuel per car versus $10 for the two biofuel Smart for doing the deliveries. The Quebec-City-Montreal round trip(500KM or 310.6Miles) cost him only $2 with his Jetta.

He may use it for other uses like heating the walk in of the restaurant.

Now, that's technology used in a good way to save money, lower the pollution and require less fuel at the same time.

And no, it does not smell like fries.

P.S.
350 Liters = 92.46 (US gallons)
500Km = 310.6Miles
$2CAD = 1.948USD