Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End

Newscloud brings us news of a startup called E-Fuel promising to ship a home-brew ethanol plant, the size of a washer-dryer, for under $10,000 by the end of this year. We've had plenty of discussions about $1/gal. fuel — these guys want to let you make it at home. The company says it plans to develop a NAFTA-enabled distribution network for inedible sugar from Mexico at 1/8th the cost of trade-protected sugar, to use as raw material for making ethanol. A renewable energy expert from UC Berkeley is quoted: "There's a lot of hurdles you have to overcome. It's entirely possible that they've done it, but skepticism is a virtue."

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OT: Is kdawson posting from China

[flydpnkrtn]

or are the server/article timestamps off? It's definitely not 3:30 am in any of the US timezones....

Re:And I thought there were a subsidies for this

[MightyYar]

If it is "seeded" then it isn't pure.

Anyway, you experiment with putting salt in your engine, while I put in a little bit of gasoline. It'll help me start the car when it's cold out, too.