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EARTHDATE: August 22, 2010

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REAL LIFE NEWS: WHISKY-CAR-GO-GO

by Hazed

When I first read this headline: "Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuel" I was horrified. What a terrible waste of whisky, I thought! But then I read the story and it turns out that it's not the whisky being converted to fuel, but byproducts of the distilling process.

Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University have developed a method of producing biofuel from two of the byproducts that are usually just thrown away: "pot ale", the liquid from the copper stills, and "draft", the spent grains.

The fuel they have produced can be used in conventional cars without making any adaptations to engines.

The scientists used samples from the Glenkinchie Distillery. By a startling coincidence this happens to be the whisky favored by Bella when she fancies a change from her green chilli vodka - so from now on she feels she will just have to drink more whisky in order to allow more biofuel to be produced. All part of saving the planet.

Read more about the whisky biofuel here.

(The observant amongst you may notice the typo in that URL - it's referred to as biobuel, not biofuel. This is not my typo but that of the website. It's only appropriate for the Guardian newspaper which for years has been so notorious for its typos that everyone refers to it as the Grauniad!)


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