Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center
Solving Problems for the Earth & Our Communities
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….
A short introduction to some of the ways that alcohol fuel — also called ethanol — can transform people’s lives and the planet.
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….
Learn the true history of alcohol as the clean, renewable fuel in America, a story that oil companies and the media have kept hidden from you.
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….”
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.
David Blume hosted an open house at Whiskey Hill Farms to demonstrate the no-waste local-scale alcohol distillery set-up and other regenerative agriculture technologies developed and implemented by Blume.
There are lots of good suggestions in the “Get Involved” section of our alcoholcanbeagas.com website.
David Blume describe cómo crear alcohol y coproductos valiosos utilizando desechos de alimentos y otros productos de desecho ricos en carbohidratos. Traducido al español.
David Blume’s classic book, Alcohol Can Be a Gas! is now available in digital format! At last, a version of the massive 8-pound tome we can afford to ship! Learn more about what makes Alcohol Can Be a Gas! a book that’s changing the world in big ways. You can read a large sample on the book’s Amazon page.
Alcohol Can Be a Gas! is now available in digital format! Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century is an information-dense, highly readable, profusely illustrated manual, covering every aspect of alcohol fuel from history through crops, hands-on fuel production, and vehicle conversion. It’s the first comprehensive book on small-…
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This fascinating two-and-a-half-hour talk by David Blume provides an entertaining and thorough introduction to the topic of alcohol fuel.
Dave Blume and Robert Re show us around the Whiskey Hill Farms local-scale alcohol distillery and factory for production of numerous co-products.
In this short video, David Blume explains how George Washington inadvertently encouraged the making of moonshine.
David Blume, author of Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century, is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading expert in production and use of ecological alcohol fuel. You can learn much, much more about alcohol fuel and Dave’s involvement with it at his Alcohol Can Be a Gas! website,…