Booze-to-Fuel Cars. Posted by Caroline McCarthy, SmartPlanet.com, May 12, 2008. '[E-Fuel founder Thomas] Quinn and his fellow executives recently unveiled the EFuel100 MicroFueler in New York. It looks like a cross between a gas pump and an old-fashioned refrigerator, it'll cost $9,995, and it'll be available for customers in the fourth quarter of 2008 (if all goes well). What is it, exactly? It's a home ethanol refinery. Connect it to a power source and a water source, add sugar 'feedstock' and yeast or discarded alcohol (yes, that could mean your cheap leftover booze from the sunny weekend) and in a week it can produce 35 gallons of ethanol that Quinn says any car can run on... E-Fuel's executives... [say] that its sugar-based ethanol won't hurt food prices because sugar is a surplus crop, and that sugar ethanol is inherently more efficient than corn. And it's safe to make at home, because no combustion is involved. (We can't help but wonder, however, where the sugar's coming from.)"
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