What’s Next: Make your own fuel

I have written a two blogs and a full article on what I perceive as an emerging trend in manufacturing - the return to small-scale, local manufacturing.l. In other words, instead of companies manufacturing in far away places, they may actually end up doing so, literally,  in your own backyard..

Check this out! You may soon be making your very own ethanol. In a New York Times article entitled: “Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup,” a Silicon Valley based company named E-Fuel Corporation is going to soon be producing the E-Fuel 100 Micro Fueler. According to the article, this backyard ethanol brewer “… will be as large as a stackable washer-dryer, sell for $9,995 and ship before year-end.” They believe the actual cost will drop to half that due to government incentives.

Consumers or companies who choose to produce their own ethanol will be able to do so at a cost of about $1.00 a gallon and reduce their carbon footprint while doing so. I am not prepared to say that brewing your own ethanol will be the wave of the future but I do seem to keep coming across articles on local manufacturing. So, if you are seeing anything on this subject, please write in and let us know. It could be the wave of the future