Photo credit Gulmammad under Creative Commons license. It was an 800-pound butter sculpture of Ben Franklin that led researchers to decide dairy-to-diesel was even a possibility, according to this report in the New York Times . Organizers of the Pennsylvania Farm Show that put up the Franklin butter sculpture in 2007 solicited ideas for what to do with all that yellow (rapidly going rancid) stuff once the show was over. Biochemist Dr. Michael J. Haas of the United States Department o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Butter For Biodiesel
