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Scientists Reuse Cooking Oil To Insulate Roofs

First Posted: 05/23/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:55 PM ET

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Scientists just announced that they've found a great new use for used cooking oil -- and it doesn't have anything to do with a VW bus. They've figured out how to turn the waste from your favorite greasy foods into a "bio-coating" for roofs that regulates temperature in hot and cold weather.

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Scientists just announced that they've found a great new use for used cooking oil -- and it doesn't have anything to do with a VW bus. They've figured out how to turn the waste from your favorite grea...
Scientists just announced that they've found a great new use for used cooking oil -- and it doesn't have anything to do with a VW bus. They've figured out how to turn the waste from your favorite grea...
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Lion24
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11:22 AM on 03/24/2010
great idea
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mamacat
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04:52 AM on 03/24/2010
This is way out there, but maybe someday there will be a cheap way to use the fats from liposuction procedures to make fuel, the way they do out of cooking oil?
I know it is not really feasible, but if it were, it would help to solve two problems at the same time.
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jsarets
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09:09 AM on 03/24/2010
I suspect that a stationary bicycle turning an electric generator is more efficient...
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07:43 PM on 03/23/2010
what does it smell like?
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NOLAFIRE
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08:40 PM on 03/23/2010
French fries.
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Tom95134
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12:46 AM on 03/24/2010
McDonald's French Fries.
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TXfemmom
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05:11 PM on 03/23/2010
This is fantastic, if it is as reported. First of all, the cooking oil gets used, and then it is recycled and used to assist in energy where it saves tremendous amount of it for cooling and heating.

That is about as green as it can be. If we could just get the Northeast to switch from heating oil, we could cut our importation of oil by 30%. Think of it, 30%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That could cut the price of oil by up to 15% and decrease our dependence upon people who don't like us. Throw in some wind production in the northeast, and we could really be doing it green!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NOLAFIRE
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08:46 PM on 03/23/2010
Throw in some oil rigs off of the California coast and we could be 100% self sufficient.
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mamacat
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04:48 AM on 03/24/2010
There are already a whole lot of oil rigs off of the California coast; come take a look some time.
Besides the oil rigs off of the coast, there are nearly 50,000 oil rigs in California, the third largest producer of oil in the country (after Alaska and Texas), but our appetite for oil is still much bigger than what we can possibly take out of the ground.
Even Texas cannot get enough oil out of the ground to supply its own needs, and is dependent on imported petroleum for much of what it uses.

That the two largest oil-producing states in the lower 48 cannot produce enough crude to even supply their own needs illustrates how important it is for us to develop alternative energy sources.
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