Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Chad Currin of Glenville shows off his biodiesel processing area at his home Thursday. Currin uses waste vegetable oil from local restaurants along with a lye and methanol mix to make the biofuel for his diesel van.
