Monthly Archives: March 2011

With radiation once again poisoning Japan, this time from nuclear power plants, the news is abuzz with facts, figures and questions about Nuclear Power.  It's not hard to spot out the "white knights" from the nuclear industry, flown in special to explain how safe nuclear power is and how much we need it.  I agree with one point, in that right now, we need it.   There are 104 Nuclear power reactors in the US.   They are firmly planted in  31 states.  If you live in the Eco-friendly state of Vermont, your state's electricity is primarily powered by Nuclear Reactions...72%(So that Ben and Jerry's we've all indulged in is likely made from Nuclear Power).   Over 20% of US electric power comes from Nukes.

The claim that "nuclear is still safe" on the other hand, rings the B.S alarm bells much like when my 4 year old tries to cover up a simple lie.   For starters, Nuclear power produces a toxic poison that lasts forever as far as we are concerned.  How is it OK to produce something like

"It's all about the oil", goes the old WVO saying.  If there's no vegetable oil, then there is nothing for our centrifuges to clean, nothing for our heat exchangers to heat and nothing good to smell coming out of our tailpipes.  Our ingenious cleaning/filtering, heating and switching mechanisms will be rendered useless without the "liquid gold", yellow grease or WVO.  Yes, as important as it is to properly clean and heat your oil, it is also becoming equally important to find and secure your quality WVO source.

What used to be a liability for the restaurant industry, waste oil has been turned into an asset.  The "garbage" oil that had been dumped from the fryers and cost money for disposal is now fetching anywhere up to $1.00 a gallon in some places.  Why this change?  On the macro-level, this can be attributed to the price of "yellow grease" in the commodity market.  See http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lswagenergy.pdf fo