Whisky 'petrol' for cars developed by university (Scotland)

BBC ^ | August 17, 2010 | Unknown

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

This gives "drunk driving" a whole new meaning. Thanks sionnsar. :')

• The Bum Rap on Biofuels
• Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed

[neverdem]

I don’t mind biobutanol or biofuels, but end the Godforsaken subsidies in routine production. Money for basic research is a different animal.