Fill Your Car At Home For $3
January 8, 2009 by admin
American inventor Thomas Quinn invented the Nintendo Wii Remote controller, has now launched a home-based fuel pump that will allow you to fill up your car for just $3!
Quinn developed the Wii Remote in 2001 while running Gyration, a firm specialising in the development of motion-sensing controllers, has launched a new company to produce low-cost fuel solutions.
The inventor has designed a home-based fuel pump called the E-Fuel 100 MicroFueler. The system, which is around the same size as a domestic washing machine, is a home ethanol plant and will cost $9,995 when it goes on sale this year, offering drivers access biofuel for only 30 cents per gallon.
“E-Fuel will have a profound impact on the way we obtain and consume fuel, not unlike the paradigm shift that occurred in the ’80s from the mainframe computer to the PC,” said Tom Quinn, E-Fuel founder and CEO.
“Just as the PC brought desktop computing to the home, E-Fuel will bring the filling station to the home. Making local sugar-based ethanol fuel production possible, E-Fuel can solve the commercial ethanol transportation and pump station problems while providing consumers lower cost fuel due to micro-efficiencies.”
From the E-Fuel Corporation web site:
How It Works
The MicroFueler is both a pump station and an ethanol distiller reduced to an appliance-sized unit. The pump operation has the same user-friendly LCD interface found at most gas stations. This remarkable product uses micro sensors and state-of-the-art membrane technology, which keeps the unit size small and combustion free. And to further simplify the distillation process for consumers, the MicroFueler uses sugar instead of starches, which cuts the distillation period considerably.To operate simply load EFuel100 feedstock (table sugar with ethanol yeast mix) into the fermentation tank and select the fermentation option on the control panel to begin the process. It will take between 10lbs to 14lbs of sugar to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. The MicroFueler is capable of producing 5 gallons of ethanol per day once fermentation is complete.
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