Those hard car Mad Max fans may not have realized they were peering into the future when Tina Turner ruled a world powered by pig poop. Now a Nascar fuel specialist claims he has invented a way to make high-end gasoline from animal waste.
Dean Gokel says he can produce 110 octane "pigoline"--gasoline made from hog waste--that is indistinguishable on a molecular level from petroleum-based additives. If other scientists confirm his technology--which they have yet to do--and can scale it up to industrial levels, Gokel hopes he can address two problems at once: addiction to foreign oil and biological pollution from commercial hog and poultry farming. Says Frank Bell, the president of the Waste Elimination Biostill Systems (WEBS), Gokel's fledgling company: "This guy can take a gallon of piss, shit and water and turn it into a gallon of gasoline."
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