Ethanol Fuel
Our small farm model will produce about 10,000 gallons of ethanol fuel per year. Almost all cars manufactured after 1990 will run on 40% ethanol without any engine modification and they can be modified to run on 100% ethanol! At this point, ethanol is our only option to eliminate our dependency on oil. Ethanol is a clean fuel that can be produced from a variety of feedstock and waist products. Our feedstock of choice will be cattails. When grown in sewage water, cattails will grow up to three times their normal size and can produce an enormous amount of energy. On top of that, the plants clean the sewage water they’re grown in. So if we construct a one acre wetland that will act as secondary sewage treatment for a small town, we can grow enough cattails to produce our 10,000 gallons of ethanol and clean the town’s sewage water before it’s dumped into the river. From a permaculture standpoint, this system is obviously our first choice.
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