Scottish Researchers Get It Backwards, Turn Whisky Into Biofuels

Researchers at Edinburgh Napier’s Biofuel Research Centre have done something unthinkable - they have used Scotch to fuel cars instead of violence-filled weekends. Well, not Scotch specifically, rather whisky manufacturing waste from Diageo’s Glenkinchie Distillery.  Whew, the culture dodged a bullet there.     But it's also a good idea.  Scotch is a $5.5 billion industry in Scotland and Edinburgh Napier hit on the idea that whisky by-products could be an excellent resource for developing biobutanol, a next-generation biofuel with 30% more output power than ethanol.  To understand how it works, you need a quick primer on whisky. read more

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