Most misleading headline ever: Scots make biofuel from whiskey

[n2doc]

There's a saying that the cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the ocean. It's a nice sentiment, but let's be honest: There are some things that only whiskey can fix. And one of those is, apparently, the climate crisis.

Scottish researchers have devised a way to make biofuel from whiskey — but fear not, the fuel doesn't waste the precious liquid, but instead uses byproducts of its manufacture: "draff," the used grains, and "pot ale," the liquid from the copper stills. Scotland produces copious amounts of both as part of its $6-billion whiskey industry.

The fuel produced is butanol, which produces 30 percent more energy per gallon than ethanol.

Best of all, the biofuel could go straight into your car's tank, with no rejiggering required. It could eventually be used as jet fuel as well. The Edinburgh Napier University researchers are creating a company to commercialize their findings and expect enough of it to be available at European pumps by 2020 to contribute to that year's EU biofuel requirements of 10 percent.

I'll drink to that!

Posted By: Cameron Scott



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?entry_id=70378&tsp=1

[Deep13]

1. Car exhaust will smell awesome!

Just a hint of peat.

[GliderGuider]

2. It's amusing

The whole front row of bottles in the picture are Irish "whiskey" rather than Scotch. While Irish might be a nice refresher on a hot summer day after mowing the lawn, it's simply not a proper dram...

I wonder if Lagavulin makes better butanol than Glenfiddich?

[Dead_Parrot]

5. Scotland, Ireland, all the same isn't it?

I see the photo for Nathanael's UK traffic article doesn't quite go, either.

Ahh, modern journalism. Gotta love it.

[damntexdem]

3. Misleading? But it's so obviously true! And has been for centuries!

;-)

[nosmokes]

4. Somebody tryin to start a war or something? Neither the Scots or the Irish

is gonna appreciate a picture of various brands of Irish Whiskey in an article about Scotch whisky.

[Sanity Claws]

6. It's misleading cause an IRISHMAN did the research

or at least that's what the Irish say. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/irish-scientists-invention-puts-whisky-in-the-car-2301186.html