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MicroFueler Home Ethanol Pump Unveiled, Ready For Pre-Orders

E-Fuel's MicroFueler, the home-based ethanol production system that makes gas from sugar or stale beer, was unveiled for the first time today in New York. E-Fuel says it will now take preorders for the $10,000 system, and will ship it by the end of the year. As you can see, it's not the smallest thing—no wonder the original image of it only showed a corner. Given its bulk and its price, what makes investing in this particular ethanol machine really worth it?
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2:10 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Benny Goldman
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Latest by n/a: Get behind Cellulosic Ethanol production. Current corn-based ethanol requires 1.2 gallons of Fossil fuels to produce 1 gallon of Cornohol. Yet 5 gallons of cellulosic ethanol derived from prairie grass can be produced with just more »

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E-Fuel MicroFueler Turns Sugar, Stale Beer Into Gas For Your Ride

The dream of a home ethanol pump has been realized, says the New York Times, thanks to inventor named Floyd S. Butterfield. One of the world's only celebrated non-hillbilly still-makers, Butterfield has invented the $10,000 E-Fuel 100 MicroFueler, a gadget that combines heaps of sugar and a sprinkling of yeast to ferment an alcoholic brew which it then distills into ethanol. The notion is that, as long as the price of sugar stays relatively low, it could cost about $1 per gallon to make the fuel. It's even cheaper when you put un-drunk stale beer in the system: Since the fermentation is done, all it takes is the electricity to distill the beer into scotch whiskey fuel for your car. More »

10:50 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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Latest by n/a: Two things have created this gas pricing issue; 1) monopoly2) fear Oh wait, one more; 3) envronmental whackos who have done everything in their power to stop oil exploration in our own country; even though it is now environmentally friendly to do so. more »