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Inventor test drives fuel alternative - Apr 18, 2006
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A Palmerston North inventor is driving the length of New Zealand in a car powered by cooking waste from McDonald's to try to prove that vegetable oil can be used as a reliable motor fuel.
James MacDonald hopes to patent the engine modification he has spent two-and-a-half years developing.
"You can use hemp oil, vegetable oil, tallow, chicken fat etc, so any hydro carbon chain," he says.
His trip from Bluff to Cape Reinga is expected to take a fortnight.
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