Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas?

[Pale Rider]

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Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas?


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. There is no combustion inside the device, which runs on a standard household 110- to 220-volt AC power supply (consuming about 150 watts per day) and uses a membrane system to distill the sugar, yeast and water solution required to make ethanol rather than combustion heating elements, as commercial ethanol producers do.

Interested drivers in the U.S. can put in their orders now for their own EFuel100 MicroFueler at the company's Web site with a $3,000 down payment toward the total $10,000 tab; the first units are expected to ship some time this fall. The company, which has plants in Los Gatos and Paso Robles, Calif., as well as Hong Kong, also plans to sell MicroFuelers in Brazil, China and the U.K.

The prototype rolled out at a press conference in New York City yesterday is 72 inches (1.8 meters) high, 42 inches (1.1 meters) wide and 72 inches long, but the company says the consumer units are likely to be a bit smaller.

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[avatar4321]

if this is true, this would be incredible!

[Pale Rider]

if this is true, this would be incredible!

If this is true, I'm going to get one.

I'm a little concerned about the acidic emissions though. I wonder if it's any worse than carbon monoxide.

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[Pale Rider]

I find it almost unsettling how there's not one single word of these machines in the MSM.

[Mr. P]

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Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas?


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. There is no combustion inside the device, which runs on a standard household 110- to 220-volt AC power supply (consuming about 150 watts per day) and uses a membrane system to distill the sugar, yeast and water solution required to make ethanol rather than combustion heating elements, as commercial ethanol producers do.

Interested drivers in the U.S. can put in their orders now for their own EFuel100 MicroFueler at the company's Web site with a $3,000 down payment toward the total $10,000 tab; the first units are expected to ship some time this fall. The company, which has plants in Los Gatos and Paso Robles, Calif., as well as Hong Kong, also plans to sell MicroFuelers in Brazil, China and the U.K.

The prototype rolled out at a press conference in New York City yesterday is 72 inches (1.8 meters) high, 42 inches (1.1 meters) wide and 72 inches long, but the company says the consumer units are likely to be a bit smaller.

Article continues here, MUST READ! (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=backyard-ethanol-brewers&sc=rss)

Now boys, THAT'S a expensive moonshine still!!!

[DragonStryk72]

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Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas?


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. There is no combustion inside the device, which runs on a standard household 110- to 220-volt AC power supply (consuming about 150 watts per day) and uses a membrane system to distill the sugar, yeast and water solution required to make ethanol rather than combustion heating elements, as commercial ethanol producers do.

Interested drivers in the U.S. can put in their orders now for their own EFuel100 MicroFueler at the company's Web site with a $3,000 down payment toward the total $10,000 tab; the first units are expected to ship some time this fall. The company, which has plants in Los Gatos and Paso Robles, Calif., as well as Hong Kong, also plans to sell MicroFuelers in Brazil, China and the U.K.

The prototype rolled out at a press conference in New York City yesterday is 72 inches (1.8 meters) high, 42 inches (1.1 meters) wide and 72 inches long, but the company says the consumer units are likely to be a bit smaller.

Article continues here, MUST READ! (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=backyard-ethanol-brewers&sc=rss)

God, I love our economy. somebody just sitting around goes, "Well, what are you gonna do? Have everyone give up their yard space to grow corn?", and then the light bulb turns on (an energy efficient one apparently), and goes, "You know, I think we could sell that to people."

[PostmodernProphet]

reading the comments under the link, this machine will consume 470 lbs of sugar to produce 35 gallons of ethanol.......a week.......now you could buy that sugar at the grocery store (around $2 for 4 lbs) for around $200 or buy their "discounted sugar" at an unknown price which means someone has to deliver close to 500 lbs worth of UPS fees to your door weekly.....I wonder what that ethanol is going to cost you?......