Brewing Your Own Fuel in the Backyard
Here is an article that gives you hope that a lot of our interconnected environmental, climate-change, waste disposal, energy and resource scarcity, pollution and geo-political threats can be tackled through technology before our world implodes:
Floyd Butterfield and Thomas Quinn launched E-Fuel Corporation. Their product allows you to create ethanol in your backyard.
The holy grail will be reached when someone comes up with equipment that takes bio-trash and turns it into clean energy. There you have the cleanest solution to so many problems.
It is not impossible – the core technology actually already exists. My crazy fellow Mexican Jewish friends Zeev and Zak Zaidman run a health foods company called Kopali that goes from place to place on a bus fueled with trash.
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