Grease to Biodiesel Plant in SF

June 3rd, 2008 Alex

San Francisco will be building a grease-to-biodiesel plant scheduled to be finished in December 2008. SF Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the city received $1 million from the California Energy Commission to build the facility at the Oceanside Sewage Treatment Plant. The plant will create three grades of biodiesel from brown grease which is the dirtiest grade level of grease to yellow grease. The “yellow grease” from restaurants is currently being used in a recycling program to power city vehicles. The brown grease is normally discarded at sewage treatment plants but at this plant, it will be converted into ASTM (high grade American Society for Testing and Materials) certified biodiesel. The plant is also planned to be named after President George W. Bush. He is not exactly a supporter of biodiesel since he comes from a family of oil tycoons but I guess it is ok since there is a lot of crap there that we can turn into something useful.

via SFwater.org and Valleywag

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