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Motor oil: Soon to be another animal product?

Another very good reason to give up driving... In what way is feeding
cows something like 40 calories of fossil fuel input for every
calorie out (David Pimentel's estimate) greening automotive oil?
It'll just cost many more cows their lives, speed the depletion of
fossil fuels and accelerate global warming. Stupid and heartless.

The New York Times February 11, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/automobiles/08BIO.html

Oil Goes 'Green,' With the Help of Some Cows

By JIM MOTAVALLI

MOTOR oil would seem to be a good candidate for a green makeover,
especially because Americans use so much of it, and often dispose of
it improperly. According to a survey by the National Petrochemical
and Refiners Association, 585 million gallons of engine oil, under a
huge number of brand names, were sold for gasoline engines in 2007.

Standard motor oil is not exactly environmentally friendly,
especially once it is used. The Department of Health and Human
Services says oil can contain such toxic substances as benzene, lead,
zinc and cadmium. Consumers are urged to dispose of used oil properly
at recycling centers, including local garages.

While an automotive-products company in Stamford, Conn., has not
solved the recycling problem, it says it has developed a way to make
engine oil a bit greener. And the solution involves cows - thousands
of them.

The company, Green Earth Technologies, has been selling G-Oil since
last May. The oil is made from beef tallow and is a byproduct of the
slaughterhouse business. According to Dr. Mat Zuckerman, the company
president, one cow yields 110 quarts of oil. In the Oklahoma
panhandle some 50,000 cattle are processed every day within 150 miles
of the company's plant in Guymon. Does that make G-Oil green and a
renewable resource? Dr. Zuckerman said he thought so.

"We could make all the motor oil the country needs from 50,000 cows a
day," he said. "It doesn't have to be made of petroleum."

Although G-Oil is sold in Home Depot and other stores, the product is
for small two- and four-cycle engines (lawnmowers, weed whackers) and
is used in auto racing. Certification for use in cars and trucks is
pending from the American Petroleum Institute.

Dennis Bachelder, a senior engineer with the institute's licensing
department, said he had certified many different oils, but G-Oil was
a first for him. He said he was reviewing G-Oil's data and had not
found anything to keep the product from receiving certification. A
verdict could be delivered within weeks.

But as with petroleum-based engine oil, G-Oil should not be dumped on
the ground.

"We're working on that issue for people who change their own oil, but
we're not quite there yet with a cradle-to-grave answer," Dr.
Zuckerman said. "For now, we recommend taking our oil to a recycling
center."

Engine-oil additives have also been going green.

Motor Silk is an additive made from the element boron and synthetic
oil. Advanced Lubrication Technology of Agoura Hills, Calif., the
company that makes the additive, said it was biodegradable and
nontoxic. The company also said that its additive reduced engine
friction so much that it could improve fuel economy by 10 to 20
percent and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Mike Phelps, the chief executive, said his company licensed the
technology, which was developed at Argonne National Laboratory near
Chicago in 1995. "We spent three years in development work and got it
on the market in 1998," he said. The product has been used mainly by
fleets, he said, but was recently offered online to retail customers.

In an e-mail message, Argonne said it found that the addition of
boron into base oils could reduce friction by up to 60 percent.

However, on the Web site of Advanced Lubrication Technology, the
company implies that the technology was developed by Argonne for the
space program. Brock Cooper, a spokesman for Argonne, said in an
e-mail message that the technology was "not developed for NASA, the
shuttle or aerospace use."

Mr. Phelps said he had been told "over the years" that the product
was originally intended for use on space flights, but that it did not
perform properly in a vacuum.




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