Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

MicroFueler Fuels Your Car With Homebrewed Ethanol

The Uber Review

[ April 27th, 2008 @ 10:11 am ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Distilling ethanol can be a tricky and highly precise business, but Floyd S. Butterfield and Thomas J. Quinn claim to have created a backyard ethanol distillery that turns sugar and yeast to a fuel that is clean enough to fill a gas tank with. According to Quinn, the cost of fuel produced by the E-Fuel 100 MicroFueler is approximately $1 per gallon; cheap enough to strike fear into an oil baron’s heart.

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