Ten Trabuco Trailblazers experimented with baking soda and rubbing alcohol, yeast, brown sugar, corn syrup and dried leaves to fill green 4-H balloons with ethanol. The youth are part of Orange County's largest 4-H club, which is 160 members strong, according to the Register.
The national science experiment is conducted each year during 4-H week to generate 4-H youth's interest in pursuing an education and career in science. In the Register's one-minute, 42-second video, bright and earnest 4-H members, like hundreds of thousands of others across the nation, learned about alternatives to fossil fuels by creating it themselves.
"Today, people use about 2 percent more energy than they did the year before," said one 4-H member leading the experiment. "How can we conserve our natural resources?"
Oct 9, 2009
The Orange County Register posted a video yesterday of local 4-H students making biofuel as part of the program's National Science Experiment, the 2009 Biofuel Blast.
