We've been looking at wind generators for years since we like a small unit we've had for about 10 years. We also got a small set of solar panels to run a small Elec-Trak yard and garden tractor.
But we both got excited when we saw the David Blume's DVD - "Alcohol Can Be A Gas!" and became determined to see how much of our home and farm energy needs could be filled with this system.

 

What we found was it would supply our truck, auto and tractor with "gas-o-hol", we can cook with it in camp stove like stoves and ovens, it can be used to power a generator for electricity, which didn't require an extensive battery system to maintain, still technology is basic and hasn't changed much in 1,000s of years and if we stayed close to the Brazilian or Swedish model of production, we wouldn't be loosing a lot of land to the system.

As a matter of fact, having such a system will help improve our soil and that alone is what can really get a farmer excited.

To get us started, we needed to estimate the amount of fuel we need and how, when and where to grow it. The biggest investment into this system will be the still and cogeneration system, the one-time input of planting our feed-stock. From then on there is a time investment of collecting the feed stock and processing it or about 1 day a week during the growing season.

All total, we will be investing land we weren't using anyway and time once the completed system is set up - not bad for old farmers.

Next we had to find out what energy we could live without and conserve (unless we wanted to spend more time processing fuel). We came up with what were the biggest priorities for us and the animals- water, food and shelter in the winter.

Finally we had to figure out the design for processing fuel and we lucked out. We have plenty of wood we can use to ferment and distill fuel. Now that the plans are laid, we can begin as we understand every step of the process we are undertaking and the results we hope to achieve.

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