reeFUEL biodiesel for kids

Making backyard biodiesel is childs play. Find the book From the Frying Pan to the Fuel Tank to start. Better still connect with backyard biodiesel people in your community. They are everywhere.

Learn about special fish
with the reeFUEL Colouring in sheet

Yellow Fin Tuna

Big Eye Thresher Shark

Here is some information about a make-up bus company, their buses and the fuels they use. Read the information and try to answer the questions.

Remember, you can help save the planet if you are clever.

The fuel tank in the bus holds 200 litres and was half full before it was filled up.

The underground tank holds 22,000 litres and was full before the bus filled up.

How many litres of petro-diesel are left in the tank after the bus was filled up?

Using a litre of biodiesel rather than a litre of petroleum diesel offsets 2.7 kilograms of greenhouse gas, measured as kilograms CO2e.

How many kilograms CO2e can be offset by using the biodiesel remaining in the underground tank?

The Bus company decides to fill up the underground tank with biodiesel. They have a delivery service arrive every week with 15,000 litres of biodiesel.

The fuel truck that brings the biodiesel from the factory uses 21 litres of biodiesel per 100 km and travels 1,400 km to deliver the fuel.

How many litres of biodiesel does the fuel truck use to deliver the fuel?

If each bus has a tank that can hold 200 litres of biodiesel, how many buses can fill up with biodiesel from the underground tank if it is full.

Here is Lockie Roberts standing in the bucket of a Komatsu WA470 988B articulated wheel loader.

If the Komatsu is run on biodiesel instead of petro-diesel, how many kilograms of greenhouse emissions will be reduced per litre?

If the Komatsu uses 55 litres of fuel per hour, and runs for 5 hours, how many kilograms of greenhouse emissions will be reduced?

When adults use biodiesel, it is good for kids becuase it keeps the air clean and reduces greenhouse emissions.