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0It's Friday: Get your Steam Whistle beer in a 100% green delivery truck [w/video] 1302295980
Steam Whistle, arguably Canada's greenest brewery, has added a custom-built, eco-friendly vintage ride to its delivery fleet. Called Retro Electro, this green machine started life as a 1958 Chevy Apache truck. Steam Whistle retrofitted it with an AC motor capable of cranking out 465 pound-feet ...
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Could freeze-dried beer be eco-friendly? 1207084500
We look at any and all press releases which appear on April 1 to be sure that we're no fools when deciding on whether to report on them. We've pasted one after the break issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) in the U.K. which suggests that there is CO2 to be saved in the ...
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The Ultimate Driving Under the Influence Machine - a 14-mph Electric Cooler! 1196695800
If you want to be kind to the environment at your next social, look no further than Hammacher Schlemmer's 14 mph ridable cooler. Able to carry 24 12 oz. cans of cheap beer soda pop and 8 lbs. of ice, plus as much as 300 lbs. of you for a maximum range of 15 miles, perfect for a couple round trips ...
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University of Abertay Dundee: From beer and whisky to biofuel? 1188495300
I like beer. Whiskey? Sometimes, but beer is always good. It would be even better if the leftover grains could be turned into biofuels in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Any distilling process leaves behind by-products, including the distillation of corn into ethanol. Currently, much of this ...
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Friday Humor: How to get more people to take mass transit - offer free booze 1186765560
News from Amtrak has us thinking that offering $100 in free alcohol to passengers taking an overnight train ride could not only entice more people to take mass transit but could also get some drunk drivers off the road and on the rail. Well, maybe not... but more people on the train is good news, ...
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Colorado brewery turning waste CO2 from beer into biodiesel 1171567680
The reason carbonated beverages have their name is the bubbles of carbon dioxide that are emitted. One of the byproducts of the beer brewing process is carbon dioxide gas. Now an environmentally- conscious brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado, New Belgium Brewery is hooking up with nearby Solix ...
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Old beer plant now brewing ethanol 1146173820
Recycling beer bottles just isn’t what it used to be. The New York Time has a story about an old Miller Lite brewing facility in New York state that shut down over ten years ago is getting ready to brew some more alcohol, but this time the fermentation tanks and kettles that used to brew ...
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Beer and Biofuel finally come together to great effect 1145715120
Ray Holan is an accomplished auto mechanic, biofuel advocate, author of the book Sliding Home: A Complete Guide to Driving Your Diesel on Straight Vegetable Oil and regular feature contributor to AutoblogGreen. Compared to a VW Jetta TDI, this truck's a monster.One look at the Great Lakes Brewing ...

