In addition to hosting the vehicles education exhibit at the
White House, Energy Department employees participated in many
activities as part of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day -
like the fitness presentation shown above. | Energy Department
file photo. My colleagues and I were excited to represent the
Energy Department at the White House’s Take Our Daughters and
Sons to Work Day on April 26. We talked to roughly 200 kids
about the Energy Department’s research on vehicles and domestic,
renewable fuels. At the event, we demonstrated the first step in
the process of making biodiesel, an efficient biofuel that can
be made from new or used vegetable oil, animal fat, or recycled
restaurant grease. Biodiesel burns cleaner than petroleum-based
diesel and is generally made of materials grown or created in
the U.S. While all diesel vehicles can run on a five percent
biodiesel blend, many can run on fuel blends as high as 20
percent. As a volunteer from the audience crushed dried
soybeans, we talked about how e