Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Cars to be powered by ... whiskey?

Leave it to the Scots to put whiskey to good use. Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have created a new kind of butanol from the remnants of the whiskey distilling process. They claim the new fuel is 30 percent stronger than ethanol and could be used in vehicles without adapting the engine. The whiskey-fuel could very well come to gas pumps in the UK in the next few years.

The more than $6 billion whiskey industry in the UK creates plenty of waste to go around, and unlike ethanol, the fuel comes from discarded by-products. More...

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