{"id":67785,"date":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-veggie-powered-car-drives-home-environmental-point\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-veggie-powered-car-drives-home-environmental-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/uri-students-veggie-powered-car-drives-home-environmental-point\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student\u2019s veggie-powered car drives home environmental point"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — February 1, 2007 — When 溏心vlog免费B站 student Nick Russell needs fuel, he drives his 1985 Mercedes past gas stations and stops at the Two Little Fish restaurant in Westerly. There, the 19-year-old fills a 50-gallon plastic drum with free, discarded soybean oil and drives home. He filters some of the oil over his parents\u2019 backyard fire pit and pours it into his car. <\/p>\n


\nHis car doesn\u2019t run on veggie power alone. It must run on diesel fuel for the first five miles of any trip. The sophomore gets 29 miles per veggie gallon and 28 miles per gallon on his diesel fuel.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWhen I asked the restaurant owners if I could take away their used oil, they just kinda looked at me and asked me to repeat the question,\u201d the Hopkinton resident says with a smile, noting that a restaurant generally has to pay a company to truck away its waste.<\/p>\n


\nA member of the Renewable Energy Club on campus, Russell is motivated. \u201cWe have to preserve the planet. Vegetable oil is free and it\u2019s clean,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd using alternative fuels makes the country less dependent on foreign oil.


\n\t \u201cThe car doesn\u2019t smell like French fries when I drive down the street either,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt\u2019s a sweet smell.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe sophomore had to convert his diesel engine car to run on the veggie oil. He bought a conversion kit online from greasecar.com for $800. It looked complex, but after five months working side by side with his father Joel Russell, the veggie vehicle was good to roll. \u201cIt takes time,\u201d the young recycler says, \u201cand a bit of patience, but I\u2019m pretty sure my dad wants to get one now.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tRussell proudly pops open his car\u2019s hood and trunk, revealing a maze of wires, switches, tubes, storage tank, and hoses. He opens the driver\u2019s side and points to his dashboard controls that switches from diesel to soy.<\/p>\n


\nAlthough the Mercedes\u2019 odometer reads 237,000 miles, Russell feels it has many miles to go. \u201cI\u2019ll get my money back,\u201d he says with confidence.<\/p>\n


\nRussell studies German at 溏心vlog免费B站 and is uncertain of his future career path. It might be in Germany. The country, he says, has an emerging alternative energy program. <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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