Posted on 11/29/2013 6:25:04 PM PST by posterchild
You may not be able to drink and drive, but pretty soon your car will be able to. That's the goal of a new project based—where else—in Scotland that is using some next-level alchemy for a new take on the lead-into-gold cliché: turning golden whiskey into unleaded fuel.
Biofuel, that is.
Don't worry, they're not going to be taking your precious Scottish nectar itself to the pumps, it's actually way better than that. The folks at Celtic Renewables Inc. want to synthesize the waste left behind when the whiskey is finished, which accounts for as much as 90% of the raw materials, into something called biobutanol; basically ethanol with a Lance Armstrong complex. You see, ethanol, whose production is subsidized in the U.S. and is made primarily from government-subsidized corn, can only be used as a 10% additive to standard fermented dinosaur origin gas. But biobutanol is so damn potent, only ten or twenty percent less than gasoline's, it can be mixed at a much higher level.
(Excerpt) Read more at autos.yahoo.com ...
OMG I can’t imagine doing this ROFL
Isn’t whiskey a lot more expensive?
Yes, butanol would be a far superior fuel than ethanol
if the cost to manufacture could be brought down.
Let’s just do white lightning!
It worked for the Clampetts. :D
I’m sipping Glenlivet Single Malt ‘21’ at $97/ bottle. I’ll be damned if I’ll run my 2002 Jeep on that nectar.
How many miles would I have to push your Jeep for you to share a couple of fingers?
Laughing at your Faganism. Thanks.
dinosaur origin gas? huh.
Make methanol out of natural gas...we more NG than we know what to do with.
Put corn back in the food chain, and save the ethanol for “medicinal purposes”.
Isn’t this some kind of sacrilege ?
People have been flogged for less.
I work in the biofuels and do not see how this idea could even come close to being economically viable.
Getting tanked.....takes on a new meaning...
THEY CAN HAVE MY WHISKEY FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get the alcohol out of fuel totally, it’as a crappy fuel unless you’re racing and don’t give a damn how much you burn!
I ran it racing in the early 50s and wouldn’t think of using it for a transportation fuel!
Corn is not removed from the food chain in making ethanol. It is merely diverted for a short period of time for processing while the sugars are removed to produce ethanol. The result known as distillers grains is enriched high cattle feed. When properly balanced in cattle rations it can increase their productivity by as much as 10 percent.
Hop in - it runs just fine - you get 3 fingers, FReeper-FRiend, neat, or if you desire ice.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, it’s delicious and special.
Beer for my horse, whiskey for my car.
“I asked for water, she gave me gasoline!”
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