How can I produce ethanol in my garden?

Question

I am serious I wanna produce e-85 but how what do I need please help

Answer 1

Beets are much more efficient. I think there is a permit and instructions available from somewhere if you desire to cook your own fuel. It costs like 75.00 for the permit and how to build the still. ....

You could find an old bootlegger, but.............

Answer 2

1 acre of corn will produce about 25 gals of ethanol.

Answer 3

First you need to ferment something with sugar in it.

What do you have growing in your garden that has sugar in it? The easiest to use is fruit such as apples, pears, peaches, apricots will ferment to produce alcohol. Grapes are another good source of sugar to ferment.

Crush the fruit, mix a little brewer's yeast with it, put the mixture in a large container and let it sit and ferment for about a week or so.

Once you have fernented the fruit, next you need to distill the alcohol from it. You will need to create a still. This is what the moonshiners used.

Place the fermented fruit in your still and heat the still over a stove.  The alcohol will evaporate before the water. Cool and condense the vapor coming off. The liquid will be approximately 95% ethanol and 5% water.  

For best performance you should dry the alcohol to 100% alcohol.  You can do this with table salt or water softener salt which is cheaper.  Add some of the salt salt to the container of alcohol. Add one cup of salt per gallon of alcohol.  The salt will clump because it is absorbing the water out of the alcohol. Filter off the salt.  Once you have removed the wet salt test the alcohol by adding a little more salt. If the salt does not clump, the alcohol is dry and ready to use. If the salt clumps, add another cup of salt per gallon of alcohol and remove the wet salt. Repeat this procedure until the salt does not clump together.

The alcohol is now dry and ready for Use. Filter the alcohol again, making certain there are no small particles left. Any small particles will clog the fuel injectors in your fuel system.

The alcohol is now ready to add to your gas tank. If your car is not designed to run on E85, you should not add more than one gallon of alcohol to 10 gallons of gas.

If your car is designed to run on E85 you can use up to 8.5 gallons of alcohol for every 1.5 gallons of gas.

Congratulations! You are now producing your own fuel for your car by growing it in your garden!  This is what the farmers did when the first Model T Fords came out and gasoline was not readily available.

The Model T was designed so that it was easy to adjust it to run on gasoline or alcohol.

Answer 4

All I know is that there are two kinds-sugar and corn. I've heard 'sugar costs less to make' so I'm guessing it involves some kind of processing machine-(maybe sugar doesn't but corn does-?)

Answer 5

etanol comes from decaying plants.

so if your garden dies you should get ethanol

sorry I'm not exactally sure of what kind of answer you were looking for. but thats all i got

Answer 6

i think it comes from corn. so i guess you have to plant corn in your garden. and so you aren't confused I think "tofu" (the other person who answered your question) was thinking of methane. some sort of natural gas. you might want to research it though.

Answer 7

grow a lot of corn, let it decay, and then liquify it

good luck with that, you'll need it

Answer 8

Grow anything that is high in sugars, break it down into a liquid mash, then ferment wth brewers yeast.

Now you need to concentrate the alcohol, this is the most difficult part distillation, heat the mixture to about 80 degrees C and the alcohol will evaporate leaving most everything else behind.  Take the vapor and cool it and you will have liquid alcohol with about 7% water, some vehicles can use this for others you will need to use chemical processes to remove the residual water - this can be difficult.  Making your own alcohol fuel is not a simple process.

Grains are good plants to start with

Answer 9

Ethanol comes from corn. The first step is to grow corn in your garden. After that you pick it and take it to a ethanol producing plant. Ethanol producing plants might pay you for providing corn so you could get money out of it. The other option is to do the same thing except you pay them to turn the corn into ethanol and you get to take a fresh batch of ethanol, home for your car.