I think this is a great idea. Farmers in the US, are usually many miles from the gas station and
by using their own agriculture waste can produce ethanol for their needs. I have relatives that
farm and some are more than 30 miles away from the nearest gas station.
From the Article:
Butterfield’s other job takes the ethanol production process straight to the consumer. He has developed a $10,000 home-based machine for producing gas. The E-Fuel 100 Microfueler machine, about the size of a standard refrigerator with a washing machine attached, produces up to 35 gallons of ethanol a week. In theory, Butterfield says, consumers would be able to make enough fuel at home to power their cars and other gas-powered things and could stockpile extra for use when needed. Of course, car engines would need to have the ability to run on 100 percent ethanol fuel.
“Our vision is it will be a lot like doing a load of laundry. Instead of putting clothes in, you’ll put in feed stock, close the lid, press a button, a few days later you have gallons of ethanol,” he explained.
The machine has a pump system so that the fuel it produces can be put directly into cars.
Feed stock, used to make the fuel, will cost about $1 per gallon, he said.
E-Fuel 100 Chairman Tom Quinn of San Jose, a tech pioneer who designed the Nintendo Wii controller, said ethanol is a fuel whose time has come.
“Henry Ford started the automobile revolution using ethanol, predicting that this renewable and accessible fuel would become the ‘fuel of the future,’ ” he said during the May launch of the Microfueler. “If not for the Prohibition laws in the 1920s and the subsequent rise of the oil industry, ethanol may never have lost its public appeal. E-Fuel will deliver on Ford’s prediction and enable consumers to bypass the costly oil infrastructure and their reliance on fossil fuels.”
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