Imagine a car, not just any car, but a racing car powered by chocolate. No, this isn’t in Willie Wonkay, this is a reality.
Researchers at the University of Warwick, English have built a Formula 3 racing car that runs, nay races, on chocolate. Biodiesel fuel is derived from chocolate waste. Apparently, anything that has fat in it can be condensed to biodiesel. So that means Ariel Sharon can run on his own a@$...if the bastard wasn’t comatose.
The New York Times.
James Meredith presided over the project and stated that the goal is “to show what is possible. People love motor racing, and the trick is to do it in a more environmentally responsible manner. A racing car doesn’t have to harm the planet.” A novel and noble idea.
The car’s drawback its that the “steering wheel [is] partly made of carrots and other root vegetables, [And] parts of the front wing and the mirrors are made of potato starch and flax fiber.” Do they think such vegetables will mix with chocolate?
But chocolate may not only reduce or end emissions coming from cars, but also from energy plants as well. Now, imagine as city powered by chocolate.
Public Service of New Hampshire, an electricity company, is testing cocoa-beans as an alternative source of resource, partly. The company recently mixed coal with 36,000 pounds of cocoa-beans and ran it through its machines that power the state. Coal is the main sources of emissions in America. Cocoa-beans, even if mixed with some coal, would greatly reduce emissions.
If all goes well, and if the test results are verified to the state government’s satisfaction by a third-party auditor, which should happen within a few weeks, the plant will begin trucking mountains of used and otherwise useless (but free) cocoa-bean shells to the plant early next year. This, apparently, will be a first in America.
The cocoa will reduce emissions, but unfortunately burning cocoa with coals takes away the smell of chocolate in the air. During its test, near-by New Hampshireans walked out around trying to see if they could smell the cocoa.
So, first their delicious and now they may just save the planet. Mmmm, chocolate...is there something it can’t do?
