turning old fry oil and soybeans into diesel, so your truck can run on yesterday's french fries.
means the chemical process of converting fats and oils into fuel usable in diesel engines, mainly through a reaction called transesterification.
from rudolf diesel actually ran his first engine on peanut oil in 1900, proving diesel engines never needed fossil oil at all — the industry just found crude cheaper for a century.
neste corporation — finnish company, world's largest renewable diesel producer since 2010s
willie nelson's biodiesel — country singer backed a branded biodiesel line called biowillie in 2005
us soybean biodiesel — iowa and illinois plants convert millions of soybean bushels yearly
restaurant grease collection — companies like darling ingredients recycle fryer oil from fast food chains