If the future is biodiesel, might as well get the future involved.
Students at Michigan Technical Academy, a charter school in Redford,
are turning cooking oil from a tortilla factory into biodiesel to fully
power two school buses at a mere 80 cents a gallon.
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The program is the brainchild of Depowski, a master certified
automotive technician who manned the technical hotline at Ford Motor
Co. before becoming a teacher. Depowski recruited Garden Fresh Foods,
the Ferndale-based maker of salsa and tortilla chips, which agreed to
donate the oil left over from producing its chips.
The students
are working on solving a problem with the fuel: how to keep the
biodiesel warm. Right now, two of the district's five buses are running
on 100 percent biodiesel; warranty rules limit the other three to no
more than 10 percent. Once the temperature drops down to about 40
degrees, they'll have to switch to about 20 percent biodiesel and 80
percent regular diesel, because the biodiesel will start to congeal.
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