Unleaded, Premium or Super Tuscan?
Did you ever drink grappa and find yourself gasping "This isn't liquor - it's gasoline!"
You weren't far off.
The same pile of pressed grape skins and other flotsam and jetsam left over from the wine making process can be used to make ethyl alcohol. Last year, not only did Italy export tons of ethanol to other EU countries, but millions of liters of table wine from Italy, France, Spain and Greece were converted into bioethanol.
If one man's trash is another's treasure then why can't one man's plonk be another's petrol?
Canei ... fill it up? Yes, you can!
Read more about it here at Wired Magazine. And here too at Edie News Centre.
You weren't far off.
The same pile of pressed grape skins and other flotsam and jetsam left over from the wine making process can be used to make ethyl alcohol. Last year, not only did Italy export tons of ethanol to other EU countries, but millions of liters of table wine from Italy, France, Spain and Greece were converted into bioethanol.
If one man's trash is another's treasure then why can't one man's plonk be another's petrol?
Canei ... fill it up? Yes, you can!
Read more about it here at Wired Magazine. And here too at Edie News Centre.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
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