Cars that run on whiskey instead of gasoline: how a Scottish company did it

A Scottish whiskey distillery has produced biofuel for its own trucks. Biofuels provide greater energy security, lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduced demand for oil.

Over the years we have seen how the world has evolved, even the automotive sector has evolved to a great extent. An example of this is the way fuel is produced for automobiles, since fuel alone can no longer power an engine.

An example of this was the reports that disclose and thus manage to get the necessary fluid to start your car. However, a new way to obtain fuel from an alcoholic beverage has emerged.

Fuel distillery

Owning a brewery or distillery is probably pretty cool, but in addition to producing an endless river of liquor, it also produces tons and tons of waste.

Many distillers sell the used grain left over from the malting process for use as livestock feed, but Glenfiddich Scottish Distillery believes he may have a new answer to an old problem, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday.

this answer biogas. Well this method It is a gas of the anaerobic digestion type of liquid residues left after the distillation process. Glenfiddich has already converted four Iveco trucks to this material and plans to go even further.

Trucks that use whiskey to transport whiskey

The four biogas trucks were originally designed to run on LPG and were later converted to use biogas from the main distillery. These trucks are then used to transport this sweet Scotch whiskey to bottling and packaging plants in other parts of Scotland.

Glenfiddich believes that these trucks produce about 95% less carbon than if they were running on petroleum products. That's a pretty significant reduction, and the cost savings of using a by-product instead of regular fuel for the company's fleet of about 20 trucks is probably quite attractive as well.

Without a doubt, this is another way to do our part to clean up the environment and set an example for other companies to take the lead in ending the use of oil-fueled trucks, which produce only exorbitant amounts of pollutants every day.

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