Could you supplement your vehicle with Home Brew ?

Question

Now I don't mean illegal stills popping up everywhere with people drinking the alcohol! - I mean If everyone fed their vegetable waste through a shredder - then into a fermentation tank with enzymes and a high yield yeast, then just take out tank in a few weeks and connect into your car. You could then pump it through a very small heater unit - that will boil off the alcohol vapour in a continuous process using engine coolant at 90 degrees centrigrade. The resultant vapour would feed into the air inlet manifold - reducing the overall fuel load.

At the end of the trip, the tank could be taken back inside the house - still giving off heat untill cool - thus conserving more energy in the home - a giant hot watter bottle.

When cool, could be emptied onto a compost heap - with all the plant sugars effectively used.

Answer 1

sometimes when i get lonely at night i like to look up at the moon and pretend every little germ up there in space is plotting to invade the earth and breed inside our lungs to turn us into a super breed of advanced cabbages but then i remember that it's just my mind working overtime and i lay down in bed and cry myself to sleep because i remember how much i hate cabbage and germs

Answer 2

That's a very interesting concept.  I have no idea if it would work or not, but it would be great if there was something like that.  We need to start thinking of alternatives soon.  

Answer 3

Yes you can build a still as long as you mix gasoline in it to make it undrinkable.

Answer 4

In the first place it is legal to build a still for distillation of alcohol for fuel.

frankly your Idea of setting up a still in your car sound dangerous.

But turning your garbage into ethanol sound like a good idea, just not in the car.

Especially if you set up a solar still.

Answer 5

Turning your waste into fuel isn't such a bad idea although it really should be done outside the car.

Though if you don't pay fuel taxes it might be illegal, people who used biodiesel have been done for not paying the taxes, from what I hear the paperwork if you make your own fuel is a pain.

Whether you'd get caught is another matter.