Bacon as a fuel source.
Posted on 09/09/2014 7:35:14 AM PDT by null and void
These days there are so many alternative fuel sources — hydrogen, natural gas, and propane; alcohols such as ethanol, methanol, and butanol; vegetable and waste-derived oils; electricity; the list could go on.
Bacon as a fuel source.
One fuel alternative we’re probably not likely to have come across is bacon grease. Yes, bacon grease.
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Pierson on the bacon-fueled bike.
Actor Eric Pierson just drove his motorcycle from his home in Minnesota to San Diego for the Bacon Fest and Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. Doesn’t sound too special? Well, his motorcycle was powered by the bacon grease.
In order to get the bike up and running, bacon company and Bacon Fest sponsor Hormel Foods teamed up with a biodiesel company to refine the grease into this carbon-neutral automotive fuel.
The process is similar to converting cars to run on grease from fast food chains. Then they converted a diesel motorcycle, the 2011 Track T-800 CDI, to be more compatible with the bacon fuel.
How they made the fuel
First they had to make a lot of bacon. Then they took the leftover grease and worked with Bio-Blend Fuels in Wisconsin to refine the bacon into 100% biodiesel.
According to the Driven by Bacon website, “The fuel is an environmentally safe alternative to conventional diesel fuel. We turned about 275 gallons of bacon grease into 250 gallons of engine-pumping b100 bacon biodiesel.”
Not only was the fuel eco-friendly, but it also smelled like bacon while driving.
Although mostly conducted as a publicity stunt, the drive did draw attention to alternative fuel sources.
Pierson took a camera crew with him on the road to Bacon Fest and the entire trip was documented on his Tumblr account.
The crew made it to the Annual International Bacon Film Festival which was held on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Midway. Check Facebook for updates on when the Driven by Bacon film will be released.
Doesn’t this guy realize that he is likely offending moozlums?
Wow! This sure is going to “offend” the Muzzies imbedded in this country.
I hope they paid the road tax or the IRS will get them.
It seems he should have converted a “hog” for this. I guess Harley-Davidson doesn’t make diesel bikes.
Bacon, America’s fuel, from Hogs for our Devil Dogs. Eating is good too.
I wonder what the exhaust fumes smell like?
OINK!
Oink!
Our military needs this technology!.............................
I would have been nervous riding around places where there were bears.
A local restaurant, Pepperoni Bill’s, features a BLT sandwich with half a pound of bacon.
Has this guy seen the price of bacon these days?
I love bacon, but it’s been eliminated from my grocery list for the past two years.
Too expensive.
350 slices per mile, but boy, does the exhaust smell good!
Durn! If that guy rode to San Diego from Minnesota sitting on that flimsy, bereft of padding seat, then he must have an “iron butt” and probably has deadened the nerves in his pelvic area.
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