(Notícia em Inglês)
We've all heard of using biodiesel to power cars. Now, a growing number of people are using fuel derived from vegetable oil to heat their homes.
In 2006, the energy industry trademarked a term for blends that contain small percentages of biodiesel -- 2 to 5 percent -- mixed in with heating oil. Since then, the number of heating companies selling the product, Bioheat, increased from six to more than 200 nationally.
Two years ago Steven Foulk, who heads a family-owned heating and cooling company in Medford, N.J., started selling the biodiesel mix to all of his residential customers in South Jersey. He said he made the switch because the largely soy-based biodiesel he uses decreases dependence on foreign oil. What’s more, it burns greener.
"It burns cleaner and more efficiently,” Foulk said. “To equate it like a car, you're getting more miles per gallon out of the same gallon."
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We've all heard of using biodiesel to power cars. Now, a growing number of people are using fuel derived from vegetable oil to heat their homes.
In 2006, the energy industry trademarked a term for blends that contain small percentages of biodiesel -- 2 to 5 percent -- mixed in with heating oil. Since then, the number of heating companies selling the product, Bioheat, increased from six to more than 200 nationally.
Two years ago Steven Foulk, who heads a family-owned heating and cooling company in Medford, N.J., started selling the biodiesel mix to all of his residential customers in South Jersey. He said he made the switch because the largely soy-based biodiesel he uses decreases dependence on foreign oil. What’s more, it burns greener.
"It burns cleaner and more efficiently,” Foulk said. “To equate it like a car, you're getting more miles per gallon out of the same gallon."
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