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IndianaRed

05-18-2008 06:41:31




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Saw on TV yesterday a company is selling a machine to make ethanol at home. Costs $10,000 and is supposed to make a gallon for $1.00. Said it had special filters to get water out and some other neat features, looks like an old style gas pump. Anyone else see/hear of this? I'd seen one a few years ago to make bio-diesel at home too. Seems like you could make up that $10K pretty quick if running gas tractors/trucks.

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Bob Kerr

05-18-2008 07:34:20




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 Re: OT, Ethanol at home in reply to IndianaRed, 05-18-2008 06:41:31  
You can build your own like a moonshine still. you do have to register with the state but I heard that is easy to do as you have to promise the alcohol is for fuel and will be made non drinkable. As far as sugar goes, not nessesary if you "malt" the corn. The corn already has the enzimes needed inside the kernal to make sugar from the starch. That is what the plant grows on when sprouted.you then have to dry and grind the malted corn. A high alcohol tolerant yeast is a good idea because the wild yeast may "drown" in its own alcohol. 2 runs through the still are nessesary to get high proof stuff and then you can hang a bag of a dessicant material inside the finnished barrel to remove water. It is almost impossible to remove all water but you can get it to a useable point. The dessicant can be reused if you heat it afterwards. As far as fuel goes, scrapwood or limbs are the best bet as far as cost goes. It would also be a good idea to have your own hogs to feed the old mash to. You can have the hogs butchered when fat or sell them off and make more $$ to offest the cost. If it sounds like a lot of work, it is! I think it would be a better idea to make ethanol out of Sorghum stalks! and feed the sorghum grain and stalk mash to hogs or cattle.

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NawlensGator

05-18-2008 06:56:57




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 Re: OT, Ethanol at home in reply to IndianaRed, 05-18-2008 06:41:31  

1 bushel of corn weighs about 56 lbs and can make about 2 1/2 gal of ethanol after distilling. I pay $8 retail per 50lb sack of corn. It would cost me $3.20 per gallon just for the corn. You also have to add sugar and yeast. Distilling takes considerable heat which ads to the cost. They must be talking about the energy cost per gallon and are leaving out the cost of raw materials.



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Hugh Mackay

05-18-2008 18:43:45




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 Re: OT, Ethanol at home in reply to NawlensGator, 05-18-2008 06:56:57  
Terry: It's the same as feeding hogs or cattle, he saves the difference between grain company buying and grain company selling.



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IndianaRed

05-18-2008 06:58:57




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 Re: OT, Ethanol at home in reply to NawlensGator, 05-18-2008 06:56:57  
This one was making it out of sugar. Not table sugar, but non-food grade from Mexico, supposedly very cheap. I'm not saying it's so. This was on a news program, not a commercial.



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