OT Big Lemon Cooking Oil Burning Buses

[goldstone]

Walking to the Amex on Saturday I noticed a yellow bus surrounded by a cloud of smoke moving slowly along the A27. I had seen the same thing the previous Saturday and assumed it was a vehicle with a major mechanical problem.

This time I noticed the sign on the bus saying it was running on cooking oil!

Does the bloody thing always emit an enormous cloud of smoke? If so, how environmentally beneficial is that? And what the hell does it smell like up close? Like standing outside a chip shop? And how many other drivers frantically try to warn the driver that he has a problem with his bus??

Weird.

 

[robinsonsgrin]

Walking to the Amex on Saturday I noticed a yellow bus surrounded by a cloud of smoke moving slowly along the A27. I had seen the same thing the previous Saturday and assumed it was a vehicle with a major mechanical problem.

This time I noticed the sign on the bus saying it was running on cooking oil!

Does the bloody thing always emit an enormous cloud of smoke? If so, how environmentally beneficial is that? And what the hell does it smell like up close? Like standing outside a chip shop? And how many other drivers frantically try to warn the driver that he has a problem with his bus??

Weird.

oi we love our bus! its unique and VERY easy to spot after the game has finished!! grins...

 

[AITC]

The Oil is from the burgers we eat at the stadium!

Big Lemon have just started to collect the waste oil from the 10 kitchens at the Amex stadium. It means every time you eat a burger or food cooked with oil you are powering a fans journey to and from the stadium.

how environmentally friendly is that!

 

[Curly5194]

Big Lemon have just started to collect the waste oil from the 10 kitchens at the Amex stadium. It means every time you eat a burger or food cooked with oil you are powering a fans journey to and from the stadium.

how environmentally friendly is that!

Well I haven't seen a single person eating a burger all season so they should get to the traffic lights and then conk out!

 

[fataddick]

The Big Lemon firm is aces. Brighton & Hove Buses have been trying to drive (no pun intended) them out of business for a while now. Boo.

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[goldstone]

But no one answered my original question. Are the buses always surrounded by a cloud of smoke? Certainly looks that way to me. And smoke = pollution. So how green can they really be?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Does the bloody thing always emit an enormous cloud of smoke? If so, how environmentally beneficial is that?

Burning the cooking oil only releases CO2 that the plant/vegetable has absorbed in it's short lifespan. Burning diesel realeses extra CO2 that has been buried for years. Reusing the cooking oil means that it would not be sent off to a landfill (creating methane) or down into our drains.

 

[fire&skill]

Burning the cooking oil only releases CO2 that the plant/vegetable has absorbed in it's short lifespan. Burning diesel realeses extra CO2 that has been buried for years. Reusing the cooking oil means that it would not be sent off to a landfill (creating methane) or down into our drains.

But who's going to feed the crocodiles?

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

Big Lemon have just started to collect the waste oil from the 10 kitchens at the Amex stadium. It means every time you eat a burger or food cooked with oil you are powering a fans journey to and from the stadium.

how environmentally friendly is that!

Maybe a good reason to start doing chips at the Amex?

 

[The Large One]

But no one answered my original question. Are the buses always surrounded by a cloud of smoke? Certainly looks that way to me. And smoke = pollution. So how green can they really be?

All our vehicles including support vans run on recycled waste cooking oil from local restaurants.

The waste oil is collected from chip shops, restaurants and hotels in Brighton & Hove and across Sussex. It is then processed in a factory near Eastbourne to make biodiesel, a plant-based alternative to regular mineral diesel.

Unlike burning fossil fuels like mineral diesel - which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which had been buried for millions of years - burning plant material only releases the carbon dioxide that the plant had absorbed in the last few years as it grew, not any new emissions in our lifetime. If no one used the oil, it would be sent to our already overstretched landfill sites, which in turn emit another greenhouse gas - methane.

Throughout the supply chain, the environmental impact is minimised. The van that collects the waste oil is powered by the biodiesel, and the factory that produces the biodiesel is powered by a generator that runs on the biodiesel too. There is no water used in the process apart from water in the tea that the workers drink.

The benefits of biodiesel from waste cooking oil include:

• Approx 75% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions compared with mineral diesel*
• Virtually no sulphur dioxide (a major contributor to acid rain)*
• Lower emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and particulates*
• Approx 25% reduction in nitrogen oxides if engine timing is ‘retarded’*
• 79% less waste water and 96% less hazardous solid waste*
• Biodegrades four times quicker than mineral diesel*
• No wars, Arctic drilling or ocean rig disasters required

* Source: “How to make biodiesel”, Low Impact Living Initiative, Winslow 2005

 

[The Large One]

Big Lemon have just started to collect the waste oil from the 10 kitchens at the Amex stadium. It means every time you eat a burger or food cooked with oil you are powering a fans journey to and from the stadium.

how environmentally friendly is that!

Quite ironic when you consider Big Lemon isn't part of the Albion's home match Travel Plans.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Ooh I forgot they were back

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Ooh I forgot they were back

At least the Uni students travelling on Big Lemon buses will smell better from the chip aroma when they get off

 

[Gary Leeds]

The Big Lemon firm is aces. Brighton & Hove Buses have been trying to drive (no pun intended) them out of business for a while now. Boo.

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Fair point but B&H buses run their service all year round and a lot more frequent than Big Lemon do at weekends and bank holidays. As soon as the route becomes loss making (i.e. end of term times, Xmas etc) then BL pull the buses and reinstate them when there is the passengers there. What about the people who want to use the service outside of these times?

What B&H are doing could be seen as price fixing, but as they are only matching Big Lemon they are not driving prices down, if anything BL are doing that by undercutting B&H. If B&H really wanted to put them out of business they would run the buses for free for 3 months on the 25 between the city centre and the uni and call it something like "supporting the students".

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Quite ironic when you consider Big Lemon isn't part of the Albion's home match Travel Plans.

It is for pissheads that drink in the Ladies mile and Long man before the game!
Steward at the coach park started ranting at our driver at the Posh game,so our man promptly rattled off pretty much what You said in an earlier post.
All hail the big lemon,a vital link to the Amex for Patcham boozers!

 

[The Large One]

It is for pissheads that drink in the Ladies mile and Long man before the game!
Steward at the coach park started ranting at our driver at the Posh game,so our man promptly rattled off pretty much what You said in an earlier post.
All hail the big lemon,a vital link to the Amex for Patcham boozers!

When did Big Lemon start turning up in Patcham?

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

When did Big Lemon start turning up in Patcham?

Private charter for the Mile and Longman.

 

[The Large One]

Private charter for the Mile and Longman.

Ah, got ya.

Makes you want a burger or six when you get back?

 

[e77]

I always fancied getting one of these to Glastonbury but it would probably be too hippy by far.

 

[8ace]

All our vehicles including support vans run on recycled waste cooking oil from local restaurants.

The waste oil is collected from chip shops, restaurants and hotels in Brighton & Hove and across Sussex. It is then processed in a factory near Eastbourne to make biodiesel, a plant-based alternative to regular mineral diesel.

Unlike burning fossil fuels like mineral diesel - which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which had been buried for millions of years - burning plant material only releases the carbon dioxide that the plant had absorbed in the last few years as it grew, not any new emissions in our lifetime. If no one used the oil, it would be sent to our already overstretched landfill sites, which in turn emit another greenhouse gas - methane.

Throughout the supply chain, the environmental impact is minimised. The van that collects the waste oil is powered by the biodiesel, and the factory that produces the biodiesel is powered by a generator that runs on the biodiesel too. There is no water used in the process apart from water in the tea that the workers drink.

The benefits of biodiesel from waste cooking oil include:

• Approx 75% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions compared with mineral diesel*
• Virtually no sulphur dioxide (a major contributor to acid rain)*
• Lower emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and particulates*
• Approx 25% reduction in nitrogen oxides if engine timing is ‘retarded’*
• 79% less waste water and 96% less hazardous solid waste*
• Biodegrades four times quicker than mineral diesel*
• No wars, Arctic drilling or ocean rig disasters required

* Source: “How to make biodiesel”, Low Impact Living Initiative, Winslow 2005

Do you work for them then TLO?