Cnet.com has come to us with details about scientists at Edinburgh Napier University’s biofuel Research Center. Apparently these scientists in Scotland can now make butanol biofuel with simple Scotch whisky by-products. Thirty percent more energy is received with the waste Butanol than Butanol would vie when made from ethanol, reports an MIT Technology review. This could raise miles per gallon for you. Ethanol is 25 percent less efficient than Butanol is Sky News reports.
Whiskey-based biofuel unburdened by ethanol’s limitations
Butanol isn’t limited like ethanol is. Butanol doesn’t have to mix with regular gas as ethanol does. This is only for one reason. The reason is that butanol is key in gas already. As outlined by Technology Review, butanol could be able to go through pipelines. Unlike ethanol, it doesn’t absorb water.
Numerous like to use corn still
The Renewable Fuel Standard has made it so subsidies are given to corn growers along with numerous good tariffs and tax credits. The Bastiat Institute indicates that the ethanol industry also has the ear of Congress, as its Fueling Freedom Plan calls for higher ethanol mix caps and more expensive engines to accommodate the new mix. The expense will fall squarely upon taxpayer shoulders.
Bastiat suggests that it is rather disingenuous for the ethanol lobby to suggest the government has been holding them back, when so numerous taxpayer dollars have been committed to ethanol fuel research already. Ethanol less than 10 percent would make octane better, although whiskey-based butanol is likely to be the best option for fuel efficiency. Taxpayers would rather pay for research on how to make butanol.
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Additional reading
Bastiat Institute
bastiatinstitute.org/2010/08/19/the-ethanol-industry-and-competition/
CNET
news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20013827-54.html
Grow the Energy
growthenergy.org/ethanol-issues-policy/fueling-freedom-plan/?/fuelingfreedom
MIT Technology Review
technologyreview.com/business/25956/
Video news coverage of Scottish butanol production
youtube.com/watch?v=PV3evuZiJ4w
