[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >WVO - waste vegetable oil >what is VVO
"Virgin Vegetable Oil" I suppose. It's yet another silly acronym, they proliferate like cancer cells, confounding comprehension and clarity. It's jargon, is all. All newspapers restrict these things, with good reason, but techies love 'em, scientists too - such scientists as the one who once asked me to "dejargonalize" his learned paper for him so he could get it published. (I sent it back to him undejargonalised, feeling as I do that writers should either avoid jargonalizationalism in the first place or do their own damn' disundejargonalizing, might help to focus their minds a bit - the more jargon, the poorer the work. Yes, the work, not just the writing.) WVO doesn't work well either, but it seems we're stuck with it - "waste vegetable oil", yes, only it very often contains animal fats. But an attempt to get it fixed simply led to a further proliferation of noxious acronyms. In Britain they call it RVO - reclaimed vegetable oil, as if anyone else would understand that. Hell, most people don't even know what biodiesel is. :-( At Journey to Forever we generally use "used cooking oil", not perfect, but better. Best Keith Addison >Thanks for the clarification. Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
