One difficult aspect of a greener lifestyle involves disposal of used cooking fats. Most people either pour it down the drain, where it can lurk for years while conspiring to clog your pipes, or pour ...

There has been growing interest in using new, cheaper raw materials for the production of biodiesel to meet the economic challenges associated with its manufacture. Writing in the journal Energies, ...

Senior editor Mike Allen (who used to teach organic chemistry in a previous career) gloves up to pump methanol into the processor. "Make your own diesel for 70 cents a gallon," the Internet ad claimed ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- From french-fries to shuttle buses at Loyola University - that's the journey thousands of gallons of vegetable oil take every year in Chicago. Zach Waickman is a Senior Program ...

A car requires three key factors to run properly, assuming it has an internal combustion engine: fuel, air, and ignition. Among these, the life blood of any internal combustion engine is, of course, ...