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07-22-15 | 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by cooker

Food waste can be converted to biodiesel or ethanol, or incinerated to produce electricity.

True and, people can drink vegetable oil, which contains nearly the same number of calories per gallon (if you look at How Fats Work you can see that fat contains long hydrogen/carbon chains just like gasoline does). ~ Is there a way to compare a human being to an engine in terms of efficiency? - HowStuffWorks

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