Category: Alcohol Fuel

Profitable Surplus: Sargassum Solutions

Mexicans may think it’s unlucky to have seaweed wash up on their beautiful beaches, but, looked at from the natural resource perspective, the country is truly fortunate to have a surplus of Sargassum seaweed! They just need to harvest it before it would ever reach the beach….

Alcohol Fuel

Alcohol as Marine Replacement Fuel

I attended a high-level think tank in Mexico some years ago.  We were there  to work on the world’s pressing problems.  There I met a board member of Maersk Shipping, the owner of the largest container ship fleet in the world.  I asked him what fuel he’s planning to use to replace bunker diesel since the world is ready to ban it.  He told me that his company was looking at Liquefied Natural Gas or Liquefied Hydrogen….

Alcohol Fuel

Edible Innovators: Still Farming: Organic vegetables and “the world’s second oldest profession” go hand in hand on Whiskey Hill

In this fascinating article in Edible Monterey Bay, Deborah Luhrman writes:
“What was once a giant packing shed now houses fermentation tanks and 12-foothigh distillation towers where Blume has been practicing what he calls “mankind’s second oldest profession”—making alcohol. The objective is to manufacture and sell distillation equipment that converts food wastes into alcohol, which can then be used for dozens of purposes from fuel to vodka….”

"Farmer Dave" Blume

The Process & Benefits of Our Double Fermentation

As part of our zero waste ethos at David Blume’s Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center, we use two fermentation processes to produce alcohol and fertilizer. Instead of the current practice of treating most agricultural byproduct from agricultural operations as waste, this process turns this “waste” biomass into fertilizer and alcohol and reduces the waste stream going to the county landfill.

Alcohol Fuel