Tuesday 7 February 2012

Whisky bi products could be next biofuel

"Scotland’s whisky has a world-wide reputation for excellence and generates huge benefits for our economy. It’s fitting, then, that the by-products of this industry are now being used in an area where we have so much promise sustainable biofuels," said Fergus Ewing the Scottish Energy Minister as he launches a new company to commercialise a process making biobutanol from whisky by-products.

The new company, called Celtic Renewables, has been set up to capitalise on Scotland's UK£4 billion (US$6.3 billion) malt whisky industry to develop biobutanol a next generation biofuel along with other renewable chemicals and animal feed. Read more ...
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