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Moonshine instead of gasoline

11.05.2009

The American company "E-Fuel" entered the market with a moonshine, designed to produce ethyl alcohol from sugar, to replace gasoline in a car with alcohol.

Buyers are offered a device the size of a large refrigerator, which produces up to 132 liters of alcohol per week, and this fuel will cost two to three times cheaper than gasoline. In addition to sugar, distillation, brewing and fruit processing wastes are suitable as raw materials. The firm hopes to sell up to 200 of these units.

Critics of the idea point out that sugar is too expensive, and the car engine will have to be significantly altered for pure alcohol. However, the manufacturer claims that cheap sugar can be imported duty-free from Mexico, where it is overproduced, and the waste of winemakers and brewers is generally free.

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