Manson man runs pickup truck on apple ethanol (note: they're waste apples)

[JohnWxy]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015608760_apwaapplepower1stldwritethru.html

WENATCHEE, Wash. —
Instead of fueling his truck at the gas station, Tim Bombaci is getting his fuel from his neighbors. His neighbors who own orchards, that is.

Over the past year, the Manson Middle School teacher developed and tested his own method of making ethanol out of apples that were slated for burial.

Using a wood splitter, a washing machine and a still, Bombaci produced enough ethanol in his backyard to drive his 1990 Ford pickup in Manson's Apple Blossom Parade in May.

His goal now is to fuel the truck entirely with ethanol for a full year - or about 2,000 miles that he usually puts on the rig he uses as a farm truck. He also plans to enter it in Wenatchee's Apple Blossom Parade next year, as well as Manson's.
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http://www.techno-preneur.net/information-desk/sciencetech-magazine/2007/jan07/Fruit___vegetable.pdf">Fruit & vegetable waste utilisation - India


"According to India Agricultural Research Data Book 2004, the losses in fruits and
vegetables are to the tune of 30 per cent. Taking estimated production of fruits and
vegetables in India at 150 million tones, the total waste generated comes to 50
million tones per annum."

Uses:

Fermented Edible products
Single Cell Proteins
Animal Feed
Ethanol
Biogas Production
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http://www.livescience.com/5919-americans-toss-40-percent-food.html">Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food

"ScienceNOW, an online publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, reports that food waste occurs at the manufacturing level and in distribution, but more than half is wasted by consumers, according to a separate study earlier this year by Jeffery Sobal, a sociologist at Cornell University."

[Puzzler]

1. Also, it does require energy to make the ethanol from the apples.

[kestrel91316]

4. Well, most of the energy is provided free by yeasties. It's a natural fermentation

process, not industrial chemistry.

[just55650]

5. true

[meegbear]

2. CHARLES MANSON'S OUT OF PRISON??!1?

[Nihil]

6. "... *and* he's an environmentalist!!!"

Wait for the RWers to make that link!

"See? I tol' ya that those envyrimentally guys were all nuts!"

:evilgrin:

[Bill USA]

3. 40% of food in America wasted!!!! Jesus! and almost half at manufacturing level.

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