Climate Austria - From the Deep Fryer into the Electricity Grid
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The vegetable oil used to go down the drain, but in 1999 Tyrol set up a central oil collection system. Tyrol's residents and restaurants collect 1,800 tons of used cooking oil a year; it's used to produce six million kilowatt hours of ecological current, which is fed into the public power grid.