(Notícia em Inglês)
Alcohol and driving don’t mix…unless you’re driving a booze-powered car.
American Public Media’s Marketplace Morning Report aired a story on Wednesday that covered efforts by researchers at the University of Scotland that have produced a promising new biofuel derived from whiskey. A new process pioneered by a team at Edinburgh Napier University uses waste byproducts of the whiskey-making process to make a fuel called butanol.
According to the report, butanol is 30 times more powerful than ethanol (the most common, usually corn-based biofuel), and can be used in existing car engines without any modifications. And, like biodiesel made from used cooking oil, the raw material for whiskey-based butanol is an existing waste product that is otherwise disposed of.
It’s no accident that the butanol discovery came out of Scotland, the ancestral home of Scotch whiskey and source of some of the finest brown stuff in the world…unless of course you’re asking a resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky.
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Alcohol and driving don’t mix…unless you’re driving a booze-powered car.
American Public Media’s Marketplace Morning Report aired a story on Wednesday that covered efforts by researchers at the University of Scotland that have produced a promising new biofuel derived from whiskey. A new process pioneered by a team at Edinburgh Napier University uses waste byproducts of the whiskey-making process to make a fuel called butanol.
According to the report, butanol is 30 times more powerful than ethanol (the most common, usually corn-based biofuel), and can be used in existing car engines without any modifications. And, like biodiesel made from used cooking oil, the raw material for whiskey-based butanol is an existing waste product that is otherwise disposed of.
It’s no accident that the butanol discovery came out of Scotland, the ancestral home of Scotch whiskey and source of some of the finest brown stuff in the world…unless of course you’re asking a resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky.
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