Sweet Catalysis

"Students at Wake Forest University have formed a nonprofit group, Terrafinity Inc., with the idea of taking over the waste vegetable oil collection and small-scale biodiesel production begun by university professors. The small group of students has even bigger ideas than simply collecting oils and producing biodiesel: they would like to see the WFU project become a template for other college campuses to use for starting student-based renewable energy projects, and incorporate a Web platform for sharing technical information. “We want to create an open access research network where results of experiments would be shown, and any secrets would be revealed after the intellectual property was protected,” says Wesley Johnson, one of the founders of Terrafinity...."