tranceamerica
Well-Known Member
Homebrew ethanol fuel still - interesting article
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/27/business/27proto.php?page=1
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/27/business/27proto.php?page=1
Now if someone will make one that uses yard clippings instead of sugar, we're in business
Now if someone will make one that uses yard clippings instead of sugar, we're in business
I'm not sure I buy it. Something like this would quickly drive the price of sugar through the roof and quickly make it uneconomical to operate. I can't even imagine how many people would burn their house down with this or kill themselves trying to drink it...
too bad we can't make an engine that'd run off of something w/relatively low alcohol - like 5%
Along those lines, think about that it takes all that effort to get 5% abv. So in 5 gallons you have the mere potential of 0.25 gallons of Ethanol. And you still need to run the still Of course to be fair, most people do rather large batches of Ethanol, and bottle off the CO2 and use the waste for feed.
As much as I love the ideal of distilling since I'm a homebrewer, I have to point out that using ethanol or any hydrocarbon fuel in an internal combustion engine is going to cause problems. the only way to fix this is to harness solar more directly than using it to grow plants to ferment into to alcohol to distill into pure alcohol to burn in a horribly inefficient engine. and of course the over population of humans doesn't help.
but you gonna get that hillbilly that thinks he can power his boat on beer LOL
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