One new company hopes that can make drivers brew ethanol in the comforts of their homes which will not influence food prices. The company is called E-Fuel and it has produced the clever MicroFueler machine to brew ethanol fuel for cars.
The cost of this machine is $10,000 and it resembles a gas station pump and nozzel. Instead of drawing fewer from an underground reservoir, the pump can be plugged into home electric and water supply to produce homemade ethanol for as little as one dollar per gallon which is 3.8 L.
As to the words of the company one of the sweet teeth of the machine is that it ferments fuel from sugar. The price of sugar at present is astonishingly cheap, that is it avoids the contemporary US ethanol system which relies on corn and can increase global food prices.
Similarly to the corn, the table sugar is also very expensive, so inedible sugar from Mexico will be used. Another appendage of this technology that in processing sugar to ethanol fewer greenhouse gases are emitted than in processing corn.
For a family with two cars which drives around 34 500 miles a year, MicroFueler will pay for itself very fast in less than two years, assuming average gas prices of $3.60 per gallon. The machine is capable of making up to 35 gallons, which equals 132 L of 100 % ethanol per week.
E-Fuel claims that MicroFueler is a more efficient than the big ethanol plants because it removes the water from the fuel with special micro filter, which saves time and money for distilling the water at a later stage.