Floyd Butterfield was ahead of today's need for alternative energy sources when he built a small Paso Robles plant that would produce fuel from alcohol — in 1981.
But not until recently, as gasoline prices started creeping up, has Butterfield’s contest-winning design for a small-scale ethanol production plant garnered worldwide attention.
Now he's designing and consulting for two innovative ethanol-based businesses. One includes production of four small-scale gas-from-trash plants in the Midwest, and another could bring ethanol production into your own backyard.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Make your own fuel from your garbage!
Sounds efficient until you begin to think about how many incompetent neighbors would blow up their houses during the process...
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You may need a license to operate an ethanol still. Unless you want to run on moonshine...theoretically it's not hard to get a license to make fuel ethanol on a farm or something. I think it may depend on the state.
This comforts me only a bit... I still see garages and extra bedrooms going up with big window-shattering booms and flames....
But if we lived through the bootlegging days, we can live through this!
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