Website review: The MicroFueler - A Washing Machine...
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Gracey discovered 2 months ago
E-Fuel Corporation has unveiled its EFuel 100 MicroFueler, a device about the size of a stacking washer-dryer that uses sugar, yeast and water to make 100 percent ethanol at the push of a button.
"You just open it like a washing machine and dump in your sugar, close the door and push one button," company founder Tom Quinn told us. "A few days later, you've got ethanol."
*This is a home investment. $10,000 plus essential items over time.
I agree with one other reviewer of this article, who pointed out that our goal needs to be a complete moving away from gasoline and to something a bit more sustainable, and since WE need food to survive, we need another alternative to using corn and other food stuffs as fuel. It is a good first step, and science learned from the experience, but step over your egos, and let's go.
I would like to see this idea, where the "fuel" is created through compost created by day to day life. You can't wait for the "perfect" answer to come along, you have to try to meet invention half-way.
*sorry, I'm in a "conservation first" type of mood.
I do agree that we need to also upgrade the infrastructure to accommodate a move to alternative modes of transportation, such as the plug-in parking meters.
- goanna-mannor rated 7 weeks ago
- Home made fuel.EFuel 100 MicroFueler,, a devicethats about the size of a washing machine that uses suger.yeast and water to make 100% ethanol at a push of a button You just open it up and toss in suger ect and a few days later, you got ethanol sounds a bit like home- brew lol This home investment $10,000 plus essential items over time . An interesting idea ... there must be more out there
- LafnLion rated 2 months ago
- A long time ago people were making ethanol. They just called it moonshine, and drank it instead of putting it in their tank. The still is back, but with a more eco-conscious effort. Put raw sugar, yeast, and water into this baby and you can produce fuel-worthy ethanol for about a buck a gallon. And have a heck of a party too, I assume. Thanks again to http://virtualbloodhoun.stumbleupon.com for this great stumble.
- AvangionQ rated 2 months ago
- Ethanol is the wrong way to go ... burning up our food stores to compensate for our lack of energy from petroleum will just lead to higher food prices ... we need to start focusing on getting entirely away from petroleum based fuels and focus on renewable energy sources, such as geothermal, solar, tidal, wind, water and start investing in future potential energy sources such as nuclear fusion and antimatter ... we also need to start investing in the infrastructure necessary to make these energy sources available to the consumer base ... for example, if we took the gas tax money and invested it in replacing every parking meter with an electric outlet for plug-in electric cars, then charge for the voltage, you'd have people switching away from gasoline powered vehicles in a hurry ... I see this, not as a problem that we can delay or avoid, but as a challenge that we need to overcome ...
- virtualbloodhoun rated 2 months ago
- The MicroFueler weighs about 200 pounds and hooks up to a water and 110 or 220 volt power supply and wastewater drain just like a washing machine. It uses raw sugar (not the refined white stuff) and a proprietary time-release yeast mixture as feedstock. You can also use left-over booze if you've got any lying around. Toss it all into the fermenting tank, turn on the machine and in seven days you've got 35 gallons of ethanol. The MicroFueler has its own pump and hose - just like the pump at your corner gas station - so you can easily fill up your car. "It's so simple, anyone can make their own fuel," Quinn says. Depending upon the cost of electricity and water, he says, the MicroFueler can produce ethanol for less than $1 a gallon. Quinn likens the MicroFueler to the personal computer and says it will cause the same sort of "paradigm shift."
- cyborg9 rated 2 months ago
- homemade fuel -micro refinery at home
- icybluemargarita rated 2 months ago
- How cool is this?
