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Who needs a gas station to fill your tank with ethanol? Not you.
GreenHouse has just announced the E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable in-home micro-refinery system that turns organic waste into ethanol. The first installation of the E-Fuel MicroFueler was in the home of none other than basketball great Shaquille ONeal, who lives in Pacific Palisades a subdivision in LA.
The E-Fuel MicroFueler coverts the organic waste into ethanol for about two-thirds the cost of gasoline. The final product is E100 (100 percent ethanol) which burns cleaner emitting significantly less emissions into the air. The only vehicles designed to run on E100 are the IndyCars which in 2007 became the first motorsports league to sanction a renewable fuel.
So how does it work? The size of an appliance, it produces the ethanol by converting carbohydrate waste products into sugar. You can use spent beer yeast, algae and non-food based cellulose feedstocks. Once the conversion to ethanol is complete, the system pumps it directly into your car while your car is sitting in the driveway. Not sure where to get your raw material to produce ethanol? No worries. The GreenHouse team delivers raw material and maintains the home-based unit as part of its service package. Whew. And I thought I was going to have to start brewing beer at home to get the bi-products I needed to make ethanol.