Wired News: Teeny Reactor Pumps Out Biodiesel

Wired News: Teeny Reactor Pumps Out Biodiesel:

The device -- about the size of a credit card -- pumps vegetable oil and alcohol through tiny parallel channels, each smaller than a human hair, to convert the oil into biodiesel almost instantly.

By comparison, it takes more than a day to produce biodiesel with current technology.

"Sometimes I get so frustrated at the crazy things happening in the world today, and then things like this totally salvage the day/week. Converting corn oil to biodiesel almost instantly? That's incredible.

What's incredible? The idea that farmers can use local fuel to power the machinery needed to feed us, instead of paying for fuel costs to have a guy drive a big-ass truck out and sell them fuel at more cost. When the fuel bubble bursts, the food supply will be the first to go, after all.