Monday, May 09, 2005
Big Green cooking-oil-powered bus
Some Dartmouth undergrads have combined fun, experimentation and awareness-raising in a particularly nice way: they will drive across the country in a bus whose engine they have modified to run on vegetable oil. The linked-to article introduces their cool project best:
These are not your run-of-the-mill, Frisbee-loving hippies with lofty ideals but a vague handle on the specifics; these Ultimate Frisbee players have made tangible the goal of sustainable, environmentally-friendly travel. This summer, when the rubber hits the road, fifteen Dartmouth students-cum-Ultimate Frisbee players will drive cross-country and back in a converted school bus powered by waste vegetable oil fuel. In English, that's used french fry grease.For those unfamiliar with Dartmouth, we note that "Big Green" is a nickname for the College and also neatly connotes environmentalism.
