Brewtroleum is a new biofuel native to New Zealand

New Zealanders can now fuel their cars with the same fuel they use: beer. Brewtroleum is a new biofuel that mixes beer by-products with conventional gasoline to fuel mainland machines.

The raw material is a departure from the fermentation of beer must, which usually goes to animal feed.

Ethanol is extracted from the remaining beer-yeast suspension and mixed with 90% gasoline to create fuel with a portion of the beer.

Gull Kingsland, the company behind Brewtroleum, is already making similar fuels using whey residues and imported Brazilian sugar cane.



This approach is very useful in Brazil. The country produces huge amounts of sugar cane and processes waste into ethanol-based fuels. All cars in Brazil now run on this blend, which has been in mandatory use since the mid-1970s.

Not every country produces as much sugar cane as Brazil or corn as the United States.

That’s why New Zealanders have turned a product they have plenty of — beer — into fuel.



It also reduces harmful emissions. The New Zealand Automotive Association states that using 30 litres per week of 98-octane Brewtroleum will “prevent emissions of more than 250 kg of carbon dioxide each year.”

P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!

Source: www.facepla.net/the-news/tech-news-mnu/5148-fuel-car-beer.html