Whiskey in the car is key to future
AN Irishman has awakened a dormant technology that may yet prove to be the solution for the impending ending energy crisis that the end of oil production promises.
Professor Martin Tangney from Macroom, Cork, has developed a system to extract energy from the by-products of whiskey and convert it to biofuel. That biofuel, known as bio-biutanol, can go straight into engines without modification. Cars would not have to be converted in order to run on this fuel. However, it is likely that initially the biobutanol would be introduced as a blend. BP has researched a blend of butanol and petrol and is ready to go to market, he says.
