[SML] Beer based fuel

[Dale Farmer]

I was hoping for something new, but basically all they are doing is 
extracting the residual ethanol from the spent grains after they have 
brewed the beer from it.   Then blending the ethanol with regular 
gasoline.
    I like it, because they are using what used to be a waste product 
from the brewing process, and they can continue to sell the spent grains 
to farmers who use it as animal feed.  Much better than the US model 
where we grow corn, brew it and distill it to ethanol and blend that 
into gasoline at a net energy loss.
   I do wonder about the economics, since the process of recovering the 
tiny amount of residual ethanol from the grains and distilling that down 
to purity is not a simple easy process.  Of course, this does allow them 
to recover some income from any batch of beer that goes bad during 
fermentation.

    --Dale


On 7/11/2015 11:40 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft wrote:
> A New Zealand beer company claims it has come up with a novel idea about
> how to save the planet “from war and pollution” - with a new type of
> biofuel, dubbed Brewtroleum. It’s made from the brewing process’s
> production waste.
>
> http://rt.com/news/273106-new-zealand-beer-fuel/
>
> Of course poultry loves the leftovers from making beer so you could also
> feed a lot of chickens/ducks.
>
> --
> Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.www.interstellar.com
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