An Irish professor has discovered that alcohol and driving can go together but it’s certainly not in the drink-and-drive sense.
Professor Martin Tangney, from County Cork, has discovered that waste produced from making whiskey can be turned into a biofuel for cars.
He believes that butanol, a type of alcohol, could potentially replace petrol. Speaking to the Irish Sun, he said: “I tried to find a raw material in abundance that would be very sustainable that I could use to make fuel.”
Whiskey-making could end up being the future of fuel.
He added “Butanol – it’s an alcohol – is a replacement for petrol, so you don’t have to modify the car engine.”
Apparently for every litre of whiskey made there are eight litres of leftovers which can then be used to make biofuel, which one tenth of our fuel will have to be in eight years’ time.
This is a fact that Professor Tangney is well aware of: “We have to find some way of replacing oil and that’s what we’re doing.”
Even still, it’s best to leave the experts to it and keep your bottle of whiskey firmly in the cupboard for a special occasion.
