Recycle Your Booze With The MicroFueler
Given the way gas prices are going, it might actually be worth it to splurge and drop $9,995 on the eFuel100 MicroFueler. Apparently, this personal ethanol generator can produce up to 35 gallons of ethanol in a week’s time, which can be used to power literally any regular car. All you need to do is plug it in to a water and power source, then add either sugar and yeast or—wait for it—discarded alcohol. That’s right, those moldy Popov Vodka bottles that have been collecting dust in your basement since college could be fueling your car.
The haters will tell you that ethanol is no better than gasoline, but does it really matter? If we could generate unlimited gas for free using a couple bottles of 151, we’d still be burnin’ up the ozone like no tomorrow. After the jump, watch an introductory video for the MicroFueler via YouTube.
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I have an 08 civic hybrid and wouldn’t be afraid to use e85 in it, but I don’t know if I’d want to go to bat with Honda over warranty issues. Because the car has a lot of sophisticated computerization monitors, oxygen sensors, etc., it could generate a trip to the dealer. But if there was any concern, a conversion kit wouldn’t cost that much. But until car owners can be 100 percent at ease with putting 85 percent ethanol in their gas tanks, how can you realistically market these manufacturing devices? I just don’t think it’s as simple as trading ethanol for gas. I’ll have to admit though, the idea of cheap ethanol is very intriguing