Drink Whiskey. Save the Earth.

Want to help save the earth and still get drunk?  Scottish scientists are using the byproducts of the whiskey-making process to create biofuel.  And it's better than ethanol which needs crops to be grown specifically to harvest the fuel.  The whiskey-based biofuel, butanol, gives 30% more output than ethanol, is created from the waste products that we wouldn't use anyway, and can be used in your car's existing engine!
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My Three Songs: 07/27/10

1. Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time
2. Electric Boys - All Lips n' Hips
3. The Cars - Just What I Needed

Theme: The First Electric Car.  Tested for the first time in Boston on this day in... 1888.  Yep, you read that right - 1888. 

 Thomas Edison and an electric car in 1913 (courtesy of the National Museum of American History)