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May 8, 2008
Moonbat Still
Posted by Dave Blount at May 8, 2008 8:44 PM
Enterprising capitalists continue to exploit the enviromoonbattery craze. The latest ingenious new product is The Micro Fueler:
This morning, the E-Fuel Corporation, a Silicon Valley startup, introduced the first ethanol refinery system designed for home use. The Micro Fueler, a backyard fueling station, can create pure E100 ethanol from sugar feed stock. "It's third-grade science," says Thomas Quinn, founder and CEO of E-Fuel. "You just mix together water, sugar and yeast, and in a few hours, you start getting ethanol." The $9995 Micro Fueler […] can fill its own 35-gallon tank in about a week by fermenting the sugar, water and yeast internally, then separating out the water through a membrane filter. […] The Micro Fueler can produce a gallon of ethanol from about 10 gallons of sugar.
Quinn proclaims that ethanol "is really the people's fuel." But outside of Washington and Hollywood, he'll find few people wacky enough to trade 10 gallons of sugar for one of subpar fuel.
At least you could use it to make moonshine.
On a tip from Steve.
