[Stoves] Burning low quality ethanol

[William Carr]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

> Given that the yield is the same, and the energy content is much  
> higher, it
> looks like a really viable alternative to ethanol, plus I expect  
> (?) that it
> is not useable as a drink and is not covered by booze laws and taxes.


Yeah, I thought that would be a plus -- keep the 'revenuers' off your  
back.


The technical issues of filtering out the acetone and the ethanol  
that are by-products might keep this out of backyard stills for some  
time to come, but I think it would be more fun than biodiesel, even.


And of course, those byproducts are all salable, including the  
hydrogen gas.

It might be ten years, but I can definitely see a 100 gallon/week  
butanol still as being a great investment in the Corn Belt.

If you can feed anything to the process, even garbage, a large chunk  
of America's energy needs might be solved by this process.