In my mind, it all started when Doc Brown introduced us to the idea that you might be able to run your car on food waste, at the very end of the original Back to the Future when he threw a banana peel and a beer can into the Mr. Fusion attachment. Ever since then, scientists have been working on ways to create fuel out of food byproducts (they may have been looking to do this before BttF came on the scene, but I'm sort of a pop culture girl, so that's my first reference).
US scientists at Syracuse University are now looking to turn whey (Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet...), the liquid substance leftover from cheesemaking, into vehicle fuel. Whey is rich in lactose (dairy sugar) and since other sugary biofuels have been successfully created from food (ethanol for instances) researches think that whey could be the next frontier.
Via The Daily Green
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10-16-2007 @ 3:06PM
slashfood_com said...
The first person to reply "No whey!" gets a swift kick in the curds.
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10-16-2007 @ 3:24PM
shelterpaw said...
Damn you and your curd kicks.
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10-16-2007 @ 4:26PM
Liz Petty said...
I'm a senior journalism major at SU, so I take a slight sense of pride in this feat. It'll be interesting to see if they're successful.
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10-16-2007 @ 4:33PM
booobooo said...
i love the cheese.. they are already using corn oil!
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2280695
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10-17-2007 @ 12:56AM
Deuz Augustine said...
Whey to go, Syracuse University!
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10-17-2007 @ 10:46AM
jsmylie said...
I'm still waiting for the day my car will be fueled by sheer willpower. The only disadvantage to this system is, nobody will be able to drive to work in the morning.
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10-18-2007 @ 7:59AM
Karen said...
I would love this... I make cheese from time to time, and always end up with a big pot of whey, wondering what to do with it. A friend suggested that you can feed it to the pigs, and I pointed out that I live in a condo in the DC suburbs, and there are no pigs here. Fueling my car would be awesome. I'd make cheese more often, too... yummy homemade cheese.
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10-19-2007 @ 3:32AM
Katie said...
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