Here's an interesting item from Green Car Journal -- a $7000 home fermenter, the EFuel100 MicroFueler, that turns ordinary sugar into ethanol fuel! At 10-14 pounds of sugar per gallon of ethanol, there are many options for usable sugar -- corn, feedstocks such as switchgrass, cane or beet sugar, or even biomass waste, the stuff you might put in your compost pile. Plain table sugar is an excellent source, and the company even sells sugar, plus materials and additives to help beef up your supply. E-Fuel Corporation is expected to start shipping the units and adjunct products by the end of 2008. In addition to being a cleaner alternative to gasoline, a solution such as this would certainly help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
Read the full article here.
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