Posted on 08/17/2010 9:54:29 AM PDT by decimon
Edinburgh Napier University has developed a new biofuel made from whisky by-products.
It is the result of two years work by the universities biofuel research centre.
The £260,000 project was funded by Scottish Enterprise's Proof of Concept programme.
It has been welcomed by WWF Scotland's director Dr Richard Dixon who said it would help a "clean environment" industry to reduce transport emissions.
As part of the research, the centre was provided with samples of whisky distilling by-products from Diageo's Glenkinchie Distillery in Edinburgh.
The team focused on the whisky industry to develop biobutanol, the next generation of biofuel which gives 30% more output power than ethanol.
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Something like this was done during the depression...we may need to again.
What a waste of whiskey!
:-)
Officer: “I smell alcohol about your person. Have you been drinking?”
Citizen: “That’s my tailpipe sir”
Why don´t they work on a project to using urine as a propellant fuel? or separating hydrogen from oxygen in water?
However, your car will no longer be able to stay in it’s own lane.
On a serious note;
http://www.amazon.com/Alcohol-Can-Be-Gas-Revolution/dp/0979043778
Drink Scotch Whiskey
All night long
And die behind the wheel.
- Steely Dan
Biofuels, to date, have proven to create more pollution than “fossil” fuels. How much pollution does whiskey powered cars produce and will we see a rise of drunk driving arrests in which the driver is completely sober but the car needs several gallons of coffee and a few days in the impound lot before it can make the same claim?
Nuclear is the only long term solution for our energy needs. The whole biofuel movement is a government sponsored inefficient make-work project.
It has something to do with conservation of energy and entropy.
In New Orleans, the whiskey wouldn’t make it to the vehicle. We’d all be walking!
Only whiskey by-products thank goodness. There should be a lot of that in Scotland. :)
No, no, no . . . . dilithium crystals!!
:-)
Single Malt’s for drinkin. I hope they were using blended.
Dilithium crystals, in all Star Trek series, were shown to be an essential component for a starship's faster than light drive, or warp drive, since they were necessary to regulate the matter-antimatter reactions needed to generate the required energy.
:-)
How does the song go? Whiskey for me and beer for my horses?
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