Thinking outside the box: wacky but effective alternative fuel sources

So I’m researching alternative fuel sources online, and I come across this one website titled “Five of the World’s Weirdest Alternative Fuel Sources”. Of course, being the naively curious college freshman that I am, I click on the link, thinking it’s going to be some dumb practical joke on someone’s Twitter or personal blog. Well it turns out the site was a blog, but the information it totally legitimate! The blog is maintained by a company called Ecoble, which was created by Australian software engineer Brett Stark. Ecoble aims to raise online awareness of environmental problems and to propose solutions for these problems. Anyway, Stark’s threads on his Ecoble blog talk about strange alternative fuel sources and how they are actually completely viable options that could potentially be used in the very near future.
One of the proposed alternative fuel sources, believe it or not, is the use of dirty diapers! Basically, it has been proposed by one company that with the right machinery, 30,000 tons of dirty diapers can be annually transformed into over 10,000 tons of synthetic diesel fuel, and at a cost of just 50 cents per liter. Of course, diapers are not the only landfill material being thought of as a possible source for alternative fuel, but because of their constant output and mass quantities barraging landfills worldwide, diapers are a great item to start with. The supply, in theory, would be endless, and the transformation process these diapers go through into becoming synthetic fuels would be done in a closed system, therefore no harmful emissions will pollute the atmosphere!
Another alternative fuel source listed by Stark is confiscated alcoholic beverages. Every year, about 200,000 gallons of smuggled alcohol is caught by authorities before it can illegally make its way into Sweden. However, instead of throwing all of this alcohol away, the authorities have come up with a way to use this alcohol as an alternative fuel source. Through the mixture of certain alcoholic cocktails, buses and trains are powered with the resulting fuel source. As we discussed in class, yet another more popular method of attaining fuel sources comes from the siphoning of methane gas from garbage dumps. In fact, recently researches have even gone as far as proposing that garbage dumps be kept under more of a closed system so as to produce as much methane gas as possible so more fuel can be harvested. If you really think about it, there are so many everyday objects that can be used to quench our seemingly-insatiable thirst to find the best alternative fuel source out there…sometimes we just have to think outside the box a little bit.
http://ecoble.com/2007/12/02/five-of-the-worlds-weirdest-alternative-fuel-sources/
http://www.imaginelifestyles.com/luxuryliving/2010/10/top-8-strange-alternative-fuels
http://www.fromtheworkbench.com/top-5-strange-alternative-energy-sources/