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TechnologyBrew Your Own Ethanol at HomeBrew
Your Own Ethanol at HomeThe Associated
PressWith gasoline costs spiraling ever
higher, consumers may feel trapped by the
country's addiction to oil. But what if you
could make your own fuel and bypass the
entire gas industry? (May 30)With gasoline
costs spiraling ever higher, consumers may
feel trapped by the country's addiction to
oil. But what if you could make your own fuel
and bypass the entire gas industry?That's the
idea behind the eFuel Microfueler: Home
brewed ethanol, on the cheap. Tom Quinn
started toying with the concept after
realizing that the gas industry is years away
from a large-scale infrastructure for ethanol
delivery and bogged down by regulatory
measures. [Notes:SOT:Thomas Quinn Founder and
CEO E-Fuel corp]QUINN DISCUSSES FOR HOME
BREWING CAN BYPASS THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY.So how
does it work? According to Quinn, it can
produce Ethanol from raw sugar or can even
distill it from discarded alcohol from
restaurants with a cost per gallon at just
under a buck. [Notes:SOT:Thomas Quinn Founder
and CEO E-Fuel corp]QUINN DEMOS AND
DISCUSSES DEVICE With the national average
for a gallon of regular gas at just under
$4.00 a gallon, ($3.96) Quinn hopes the
Microfueler could one day become as common in
American households as the refrigerator.
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| Better Than Ethanol? BTL in plug-in hybrid diesel vehicles |
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Google Tech Talks
September 20, 2006
Reed M. Benet
Biofuels Focused Ph.D. Student University of
California Davis Institute of Transportation
Studies
Consultant to The Energy Foundation, Chevron,
Nissan
10 Years Founding, Funding, Consulting to or
Leading Venture Capital Backed Life Sciences,
High-Tech or Energy-Tech Co's
Europe Finance & Operations
5 Years USMC Infantry Officer
Harvard MBA (Entrepreneurship)
Princeton B.A. (Politics)
ABSTRACT
Speaker proposes that plug-in hybrid diesel
vehicles (versus gasoline variants) combined
with biomass-to-liquid gasification and
fischer-tropsch diesel fuels (versus ethanol,
cellulosic or otherwise) is the best holistic
and medium- to long-term...
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| How To Make Ethanol Work - Presented by The Auto Channel |
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With the recent run up in gas prices and the
lingering war in the Middle East, there has
been talk of renewable energy sources to
power our cars and trucks. Ethanol, a
biofuel, can be produced not only from corn,
but sugar cane, switch grass, and wood. And
using it, instead of gasoline, decreases the
amount of pollutants a car emits.
But the question remains, "Are there any cars
that can run on it?" Recently, Brazil
introduced flex fuel vehicles. These vehicles
can run both with ethanol, gasoline, ethanol
and gasoline in any blend. So these vehicles
can be used anywhere.
For more information about this story and for
in-depth analysis of alt-fuels and alt
vehicles visit TheAutoChannel.com.
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| Pitfalls of Ethanol Fuel |
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Please keep all comments and debates civil,
no vulgarities, ECT...
While I think that ethanol has some very
limited potential as a fuel it's far from
practical at this time and is questionable if
it could be with such high populations and
automotive usage.
One of the follies of ethanol is that it
produces a lot of smog emissions.
The major pitfall is that it takes a lot
energy to take the raw materials of
agriculture and convert them into a burnable
ethanol. It's one of the problems with
producing hydrogen also, unless you take a
shortcut and produce hydrogen from petroleum,
that doesn't take as much energy or cost as
much; but it hardly weans us off of
petroleum.
Not only does burning ethanol produced more
smog than petroleum, since it requires so
much energy to process ethanol, the energy
source also probably produces masses amounts
of emissions. So not only will be the burning
the ethanol, we will probably increase our
burning of coal and other fuel sources to
process the ethanol. The one fuel but I know
of that might be able to make the processing
of ethanol economical would be nuclear.
Unfortunately it would probably take decades
to get approval and build the nuclear power
plants, something I feel that we should start
doing now. If we wait until we get desperate,
that means we would rush things and that
could be dangerous. Another problem with
nuclear power is there it is so much
bureaucracy that it can reduce its a cost
effectiveness and in some cases safety.
Al Gore and his liberal fascists are creating
global warming hysteria, instead of playing
politically correct global warming games. We
should be working with industry to keep us in
oil until big business can get the
infrastructure and technology for alternative
energy sources.
Unfortunately Bush the weak Republican which
I think his quasi liberal has partly given
into the global warming hysteria by jumping
feet first on the ethanol bandwagon. I think
it was good to increase our production,
however I'm not sure the rate of change and
extent of change is wise. Because it is
surging our food prices, increasing
emissions, and could possibly be devastating
to our farmland by depleting the soil in the
long-term.
I don't know if it's practical or feasible;
but from what I hear there are vast fields of
methane ice that is thought to be able to
renew itself faster than we are consuming
energy at the moment. If we could find some
way to harvest it and get it to the user
economically, I think it would be a good
alternative energy source. Though it would
likely wreak havoc on the ocean life. However
by using the source it may prevent a
catastrophic sudden release of global warming
gases that could cause an extinction event.
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| Bio-Ethanol Fuel From Woody Biomas : DigInfo |
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DigInfo - http://movie.diginfo.tv
Japan is a forested country with about 70% of
its land comprised of bountiful woodland. The
Forestry and Forest Products Research
Institute is the only research organization
in Japan that comprehensively researches
forests in order to know, protect, and
utilize this asset. The institute is
currently developing a bio-ethanol production
technology based on simultaneous
glycosylation fermentation using alkali
pretreatments and cellulose-producing
microorganisms. As a raw material for
bio-ethanol, woody biomass doesn't compete
with current food-based ones. People are
increasingly turning to alternative materials
including wood refuse and used paper to
produce bio-ethanol fuel. The institute is
currently developing the equipment to enable
production of bio-ethanol from woody biomass.
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