Over The Edge Page 2 News November 15, 1999 “ The story lead me places that | never expected. And some- times | would think oh no this is another area of research. Unexpectedly, | just never thought the story would lead me there, she got sent to Cuba, then | had to research the whole Soviet Socialist orbit and then | had to look at the fall of the Berlin Wall because that effected her.” Chong said laughing a litle, “Things that we Carmen Holschuh don’t even know about really do shape our lives.” The story of Kim Phuc is much more than just that picture. The ‘picture’ i$ but one frame in the life of Kim Phuc and that is why Denise chose to put the second picture on the back of the book. It shows. Kim, from behind; running out of her most famous frame. Position: Assistant Wildlife Technician Employer: Parks Canada Location: Kootney National Park Work Term: 1 , Employment Period: 4 Months Who called? Just press «69 to see the last number that called you. Try *69 Call Return today. Just 75¢ per use. ce tes Cost tor this service is 75¢ per use, to & msxumumn of $8.00 per month for resdienbal customers, Denise Chong read from her new Book “The Girl in the Picture.” -Photo by Nicole Larson Picture this: It's your first day of work as an Assistant Wildlife Technician, you show up to work and they how Carmen Holschuh spent her first day work- ing for Parks Canada in Kootney National Park. Carmen says that over- all it was a humbling but valuable lesson that left her much more aware for. Co-op Education is very much like that as well. It provides the opportuni- ty to learn what -you need to be prepared for. According to Carmen Co-op Education has strengthened and rein- forced her academic goals and has shown her that she is in the right field. “School has become a lot less abstract and more rele- vant. | am working hard- er this semester because | can see where it is that | want to go. Things that used to seem obscure to me now have purpose. When I'm in the class- room now everything makes sense. Co-op has made my education more fun because | understand these things now. It gets you out into the ‘real world’ so that you’re not just an academic. You are reminded that there is another world out there other than university.” Carmen’s _ survival tips and words of advice to future co-op students: “Be confident. Go into a job confident that you are meant to be there and do not underestimate your abilities.” Carmen’s top three reasons to opt for Co- op: 1. Access to jobs that you would otherwise need a degree for. ate you have more than just a piece of paper. That paper doesn’t always mean much in the ‘real world’. To find out more about Co-op Education come and see us at rm.1051 Admin Building, E-mail us at www.unbc.ca/co-op, or reach us by telephone at 960-6065. By Sylvanna Vanderpark TORONTO (CUP) - The smelliest food grease can now be transformed into greenhouse friendly motor fuel. It took University of Toronto Chemistry Professor David Boocock eight years to come up with the environmentally friendly technology. “Biodiesel” transforms recycled cooking oils, tallows and low-grade vegetable oils into diesel. It is the first of its kind in the world. George Adams, presi- dent of the U of T Innovations Foundation, is pleased with the dis- covery. “The advantage of our biodiesel is that you can take the worst stuff you can imagine and turn it into fuel,” he said. He says a similar innovation was made in Europe but with high quality vegetable oil. “The end product we get from sewage is of the same quality that the Europeans get from vegetable oil” explained Adams. Combined with petro- leum diesel at a 20 per cent blend, the formula has been approved by the U.S. Department of Energy ‘and Environmental Protection Agency as an alternative fuel. The formula has been recently licensed to the California-based Biodiesel Development Corporation (BDC). By using cheap feedstock, it is estimated this method will cut fuel costs by as much as 50 per cent, making it com- petitive with regular petrodiesel fuel. And it provides a twofold envi- ronmental advantage by being a recycled prod- uct and a clean burning fluid. It takes bad oil and extracts ‘lipids in sewage sludge that give good oil, like choles- terol, fats, greases and vegetable oil,” said Boocock. The sewage sludge will be collected from restaurants and food processing companies - anywhere where there’s food being fried - includ ing fast food restaurants like McDonald’s where an average four to five buckets (80-100 litres) of grease sewage is dis- posed of each week. Biodiesel is aestheti- cally attractive too. “[It’s] pale yellow in colour and has an aroma equivalent to that of vegetable oil,” Boocock said. “It reduces emis- sions, and the nicest thing about it is that it’s biodegradable.” Boocock points out there are certain socio- political implications to this diesel. “In tropical countries the technolo- gy can be used to con- vert the Methyl Esther from palm oil into biodiesel,” he said. He claims the innovation could lessen foreign dependency for oil. The researchers hope that U of T and Biodiesel will enjoy global success as more companies and coun- tries pick up the licens- es to use the formula. “l think biodiesel will do well,” said Adams. “What we need are some Canadian entre- preneurs to take it on and globalize it. BDC will demonstrate that it works to scale, and then the hope is to scale it down to fit into communities.” Adams wants to see the new fuel put to good use. “The least we can do with it is put it to use on school buses ‘to pre- vent children from inhal- ing toxic fumes,” said Adams.