For many people, beer has been used as fuel for drunken adventures--or misadventures, as the case may be. However, scientists have found that this type of alcoholic beverage can be used for another type of fuel altogether—as an alternative to diesel or gasoline.
It turns out that the alcohol in drinks like beer is exactly the same as ethanol, which already is being used as an alternative fuel in gasoline in the United States, according to researchers at the University of Bristol. And the process of converting this ethanol to butanol holds keys to creating a more standard industrial process for developing biofuel, they said.
