Ethanol Production Unit for your Home
Yesterday, E-Fuel Corporation unveiled their final product model of their E-Fuel MicroFueler, a device that will be able to produce “organic” fuels like ethanol.
The E-Fuel distribution system produces organic fuel by using carbohydrate waste products found in brewery waste, algae and cellulose. Using semiconductor technology, the appliance-sized units are pump-stations and ethanol distillers that can be installed at residences by the GreenHouse distribution team.
Each MicroFueler requires three kilowatts of electricity to produce a gallon of Efuel100, in turn one gallon of Efuel100 will generate up to 23 kilowatts of power. The system’s proponents claim the ethanol generated will play an integral part in reducing California greenhouse gas emissions.
The article goes on the state that the state of California will be looking into the feasability of using the ethanol produced by this in flex-fuel vehicles. The great news is that it looks like these units will produce more energy than it will consume creating the ethanol.
However, from a cursory glance over their “Fact Sheet“, the premise of this whole device is access to cheap alcohol and sugars. For the sugars and alcohol to be cheap, the American taxpayer looks to be footing the bill through subsidy programs.
Anyways, this is interesting technology that has a lot of applications in the future. Now if they could only make it feasible without relying on subsidies…
