Tired of paying through the nose at the gas pump? A company called E-Fuel Corporation is offering a backyard ethanol brewer that can produce up to 35 gallons of ethanol a week that you can pump directly into your car:
To make ethanol in the EFuel100, feedstock (consisting of sugar and yeast) or discarded liquor is loaded into the device's 200-gallon (757-liter) tank. Using the LCD screen located on the front of the device (next to the pump), the operator places the EFuel100 either in ferment (for feedstock) or distillation (for liquor) mode to begin the process. The EFuel100 is hooked up to a water source—much like one's washing machine or dishwasher is—and regulates the amount of water flowing into its tank to begin the ethanol-conversion process.
Once the feedstock is fermented, the device transfers the solution to its distillation system, where it is vaporized in a vertical column tube and sent through a membrane that separates the alcohol from the water. The distilled vapor is then cooled back into liquid form and sent to the 35-gallon storage tank, from which it can be pumped into an automobile using a 50-foot (15-meter) retractable hose. The process of turning sugar into ethanol fuel takes nearly a week (although alcohol distillation can be done in a matter of hours).
The company's goal is to keep the cost of ethanol to be less than $1 per gallon (which may be impossible to do), but first you have to ante up $10K to buy the device: Link
Select "liquor".
Distill.
Collect grain alcohol in appropriate container.
Party on!
No such thing.
Not so long ago, there was a news article of someone being fined for evading taxes by creating their own fuel, If I recall.
At least the shareholders would be happy.
You will be able to brew your own sub standard ethonal! Will wonders never end.
just think soon everyone will beable to wast 10 to 12 bucks a gallon brewing their own e-100 at home. and then get smaked by the feds for road tax evasion.
Right now yes there is a low supply of fuel, but not to the point where we have to pay this much in gas.
Oil companies are making the most they've ever made and were getting scammed especially here in Montreal where it's 139.1 Per Liter !
I found this great article the other day that explains how to save 40% of gas...
http://ezinearticles.com/?High-Gas-Prices-Leads-Many-People-To-Run-Their-Cars-Using--Water-(As-Seen-On-Fox-News)&id=1167673
I really suggest you read it, it's already been on Fox news an the number of people doing that are becoming more common especially in Europe.
Don't be fooled. This engine doesn't use water as a fuel. It uses electricity. From the article:
"The electricity in your car will use electricity from your car's battery to separate water into a gas called HHO (2 Hydrogen + 1 Oxygen). HHO, also called Brown's Gas or Hydroxy, burns smoothly and provides significant energy - while the end product is just H2O!
So you start off with water, and end up with water. It doesn't take a degree in thermodynamics to recognize that you can't get any energy without using up your fuel!
The energy comes from electricity, which is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases, a process which is known as Electrolysis. This requires a large amount of energy from the battery -- energy which is gained back (although with less than 100% efficiency) by converting the hydrogen and oxygen back to water.
In short, this is nothing more than a different kind of electric car.
Gasoline is kind of a catch-all term for mixtures of hydrocarbons containing around 5-10 carbon atoms. After extracting the more useful compounds out of the oil, the rest is mixed together and turned into fuel.
This is the challenge... Let's work together as an Internet community to design and build new and less costly means of travel, share ideas at no cost to our neighbors and beat the oil companies at their own game.
Stop being an oil company's puppet.
Build a folks wagon for Americans, by Americans.
I have seen four wheeled carts with grocery baskets attached to the handlebars, driven by foot pedals and bicycle chains at the senior citzen's center where I work as a janitor. Convert one of these to take a 23 hosepower Briggs Stratton or Koler twin cylinder engine, from a riding mower, add a brake system and an umbrella and you will have a 100 mile to the gallon (CITY CAR) that runs 35 mph for city traffic and plenty of torch to climb hills. Drive it to and from work or to grocery shop or to run errands.
People in rural areas will buy them to drive to town on the alternate fuel lanes and people in the city will buy them to run errands and get back and forth to work. Students will buy them to drive to school and since they are light weight they will drive them on campus. A vehicle that runs on pure Ethanol for pennies per day, produces less carbon exhuast, and is easy to work on would surely be as big a hit as the 1965 Mustang with everyone. I am already working to design one of my own.