December 4, 2008

10W-Cow Blubber

A Connecticut start-up is marketing motor oil rendered from animal fat.

“There is a big push to replace petroleum distillates with an alternative source,” said Doug Kingman, an agricultural sciences professor at Sam Houston State University. “It’s really nice to take animal fat that we’d normally throw away and turn it into something useful.”

I like that they stumbled on the idea studying emu oil.

comments

  1. Lucy Foley on December 4th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    Well there’s been a lot of talk in natural health circles about emu oil, for some time now. It’s expensive stuff.

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