Solar Fruits 3 min. .wmv

Who would you rather buy your fuel from; a local farmer or a Middle Eastern Oil Producer? Most of you would choose the local farmer and we agree. At Solar Fruits Biofuels we believe that it is possible to produce clean, affordable renewable fuel from a giant plant with that can produce both fuel and food. This plant is sweet sorghum. We have been conducting research trials on it for the past 2 years.

One acre of sweet sorghum, a.k.a. temperate-climate sugar cane, can produce 300-350 gallons of ethanol, 60-70 bushels of grain for either animal feed or flour and biofuel to produce bioelectricity. It reduces our dependency on foreign oil and greenhouse gas emissions.

This brief video shows how we harvest, extract the grain and sugar juice, ferment and distill the ethanol. We have been using the ethanol in our flex fuel GMC Suburban without any problems.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ethanol
• sweet sorghum
• food vs. fuel
• renewable energy