Cooking oil can power homes - 28 August 2009
COOKING oil could soon supply the power to run your oven.
A new recycling scheme signed up to by Kent County Council will turn used cooking oil into electricity.
Collection banks for oil will be installed in Maidstone and 15 other Kent towns as part of a bid to reduce the county's dependence on fossil fuels.
Each collection tank can hold 1,000 litres, enough to power an average UK home…
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