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Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas?:
sciam.com — A company banking on drivers' weariness of skyrocketing gasoline prices unveiled a home refinery device on Thursday offering another option: ethanol. E-Fuel Corporation says its EFuel100 MicroFueler can produce up to 35 gallons (132 liters) of ethanol a week that consumers can pump directly into their cars and trucks.
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- nahsrocketeer75, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3Now if it could double as a still, sold!
- doctechnical, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4It *is* a still, although it uses some sort of osmosis rather than heating/condensation as a traditional still would.Which opens a can of worms, you'll require a license from the ATF to run one of these, and I don't think they're handing those out to every Tom, Dick and Harry that stumbles in. It also raises the spectre of someone with a bucket and an axe helping themselves to your 'shine, you'd have to add something to make it unpalatable to humans.
It's also dependent on the inventor's ability to ship that cheap sugar from Mexico.
I like the idea, but it's not quite practical yet.- Sieker, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3I bet they try to denature it as part of the process to avoid the problems with the law. How they'll pull that off is another story.
- doctechnical, on 05/11/2008, -0/+4It *is* a still, although it uses some sort of osmosis rather than heating/condensation as a traditional still would.Which opens a can of worms, you'll require a license from the ATF to run one of these, and I don't think they're handing those out to every Tom, Dick and Harry that stumbles in. It also raises the spectre of someone with a bucket and an axe helping themselves to your 'shine, you'd have to add something to make it unpalatable to humans.
- pmctosh, on 05/11/2008, -0/+5Not a bad start. I heard the price tag is around 10K, closer to 5 after some gov rebate program. I still want someone to come up with a way to use water, separate out and grab the hydrogen from it for powering. Call me crazy.
- doctechnical, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3It's called "electricity". You run current through water, hydrogen comes off the cathode (negative pole), oxygen from the anode. Problem is you spend more power cracking the H2O then you'll get back by burning it. You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't leave the game.
- youtellme8, on 05/11/2008, -0/+3Seeing as they make ethanol, absolutely not.
- DCGaymer, on 05/11/2008, -2/+3Prediction: Certain states will ban them as a safety or environmental hazard.
- lazaruswws, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2I just want to burn as much oil as I can while I can, the planet can handle it.
- riggs32, on 05/12/2008, -1/+3no.
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