Alcohol has a proud history. Gasoline is a refinery's toxic waste; alcohol fuel is liquid sunshine. Henry Ford's early cars were all flex-fuel. It wasn't until magnate John D. Rockefeller funded prohibition that alcohol fuel companies where driven out of business.
Alcohol production brings many new small-scale business opportunities. There is huge potential for profitable local, integrated, small-scale businesses that produce alcohol and related byproducts, whereas when gas was cheap, alcohol plants had to be huge to make a profit.
In this book we will try to expose the chemistry behind the processing of vegetable sugars (waste or clean), the equipment, safety measures and set up for the area to process a batch of ethanol at home.
