E-fuel 100 Corporation

[Mark May]

Hey has any body else heard of these guys? They produce an ethanol distilling machine called the microfueler. It comes complete to your door sporting a 50 foot hose with a gas dispencing nozzle. It has the capacity to produce up to 40 gallons of ethanol a day, using new technology where the beer is vaporized in a vertical column tube then transfered to a membrane system for final alcohol separation. Floyd Butterfield whom we met in Daves book is the chief engeneering guru for these folks, so I know they have someone who really knows his stuff. If you havent heard of them yet go to their website and check it out for yourself.

[Bill]

They came out with this product last year and announced they would sell cheap "inedible" sugar to ferment in the second half of this year. I was interested cause it would be good to have a cheap source of sugar not subject to the high duties charged on imported sugar. But it looks now like that you have to buy a liquefied version which I am sure is only available in a limited area.

In general $10,000 seems a lot to pay for a system that produces at most 70 gallons of ethanol a week. It also is very limited in the feedstocks which can be used. It won't tolerate anything which might clog that membrane, so the feedstock would have to be sugars with absolutely no particulates of any kind --- or waste alcoholic beverages with absolutely no particulates of any kind.

Maybe there are some applications for it. I hear there is a microbrewery using it to reclaim ethanol from waste beer. For me, I'd worry about hooking this thing up outside in freezing weather. These California boys probably never thought about that.

[Kirk Dillon]

What I've heard and seen on the Internet is that Ethanol absorbs water from the air. If you use anything grater that E10 in your outboard it will absorb so much water that the gas will cause phase separation ruining the engine.

Kirk

[Sodbuster]

Totally false and so far from the truth it is not even funny. What you hear and see on the Internet is quite different from hands on experience. We ride and race our mud bikes completely submerged under water and I have not seen so much as a drop of water in my fuel system. My bikes are 3 years old and are on E85 and have spend most of there life under water or buried in mud and again no water. I live in the mid west were humidity in the summer is will above 80% and again no water in any of my rigs.

I have no Idea were folks come up with bogus absolutly mislead information that people have no choice but to believe however that is why this sight and this forum was created, were here to till you like it is and that's the truth.

If you need videoes to prove that what I am saying is true I got them and I would love to share them with you.

[The Future]

Here is the actual link: http://www.microfueler.com/