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October 4, 2012

Dairy-powered dragster breaks a land speed record

by Laura Domela

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Dairy and dragsters are two words you don’t usually see next to each other, but you just did. A team of researchers has set a land speed record for one-liter engines, powered by industrial waste from cheese production.

The Aggie A-Salt Streamliner hit a top speed of 65.344 mph at the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association’s 2012 World of Speed event. That’s not a bad for a one-liter 22-horsepower engine running on cheese. To put it in context — there are lawnmowers with more powerful engines, but this baby got up to highway speeds.

It even performed just as well on the cheese fuel as it did with petroleum diesel, and it compared favorably with soybean-based biofuels.
via DVICE

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Image Credit: Utah State University

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