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Drink-driving becomes a moneyspinner

The Herald Scotland -- A new kind of biofuel, produced from the by-products of whisky and beer, could create a £55 million ($86.9 USD) market in Scotland alone, its creators have claimed.

Celtic Renewables Ltd, a spin-out of Edinburgh's Napier University, is pioneering the commercial production of biobutanol, a high-value "clean" fuel capable of directly replacing petrol. The process, which was pioneered by Professor Martin Tangney, director of Napier's biofuel research centre, can also produce valuable acetone, ethenol and animal feed.

Mark Simmers, chief executive of Celtic, said that the product offered huge environmental benefits as well as a new source of revenue for distillers from material previously fit only for low-grade animal feed.

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vandamme
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Butanol is almost as good as gasoline. Come on, let's learn some chemistry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biobutanol
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Wow
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Another excuse for the Scots to drink more.
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Pardon???
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So now what?
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Won't sit & wait for that to happen.
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so what.
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Here we go again. More maybe's, could's, if's. To top it all off Ethanol is trash that does not do what gasoline does and causes more pollution doing it. So keep on feeding the dregs to the live stock.
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Ok.
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Interesting.
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Wait and see.....
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It's a UK article Jeff4U. Please give the Brits and Scots a break!
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I'll drink to that! As long as they only use the by-products.

Perhaps all the mash from micro breweries across the USA can be collected for this.
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Leave it to the Scotts!
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Drink-driving? It that like before drunk-driving occurs?
And what is ethenol?

Personally, I don't trust products developed by someone who can't even spell.
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This its old news
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okay
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Silly
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Come on!
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I hate articles like this ... that blabber on about stuff on the periphery but never get to the heart of the matter: What exactly are they using to produce the fuel? How much fuel could possibly be produced using this technique. That is to say, is this significant or just a curiosity?

Guess it's easiest just to rewrite press releases.
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Quite interesting article!
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Some will drink to that.
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when will we get a home biofuel kit?
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NEAT
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ok
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watching...
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OK
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Algae-based bio-fuel is even better than this. It has NO 'minuses'.
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ok, so now we are going to have less pet food. What next.
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great idea i hope it is successful.
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At least people are thinking and not just drinking....
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Let the car be drunk, not the driver!
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THATS GREAT........
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I'd rather drink a single malt scotch than fill up my car with it.
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I don't know, but I think a gallon of beer is more expensive than a gallon of gas. How much is a 12 pack of beer? Maybe less than $10?
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cdrrod, obviously you belong to the party of NO......
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Great for the Scots, it should have been initiated in the US, but probably wasn't because of our current President...
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If they can get it to work right, great, fantastic idea!
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good on the scots
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Just another form of ethanol. No thanks.
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Running a car on scotch, what will they think of next
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