{"id":4323,"date":"2007-02-26T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:30:18","slug":"michaud-green-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/26\/michaud-green-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Michaud takes 'green' tour of college"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael<\/a><\/p>\n

“What I see happening here at Bates is definitely going in the right direction,” said U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, during a “green tour” of Bates Feb. 20.<\/p>\n

With Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen looking on, Maria Jenness ’07 of Newport, Vt., and Greg Henkes ’08 of Chapel Hill, N.C., show Michaud a bench-scale biofuels<\/a> process that converts used vegetable oil from the College’s dining services to a fuel that can be burned in furnaces for heat.<\/p>\n

Watch the Web video<\/a><\/p>\n

They and their instructor, Associate Professor of Geology Beverly Johnson<\/a>, said that Bates hopes eventually to convert all 1,500 gallons of used cooking oil generated by the dining hall each year into biofuel used to heat the College.<\/p>\n

Michaud also heard how Bates is building its new student housing and dining commons to high standards in energy efficiency, and saw a dining services “scrim line,” where scrap food is scraped and retained for recycling at\u00a0a pig farm in nearby Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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