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0Video: Nissan Leaf ensures high-quality whisky from Isle of Islay 1337298900
The Bruichladdich Distillery has been making artisan single malt Scotch whisky since 1881 on the Isle of Islay in the UK. As the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, you may not expect the island's 620 square kilometers (239 square miles) to be the ideal habitat for electric ...
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Nissan Leaf powered by... single malt scotch? 1313002440
Seeing cars powered by alcohol is nothing new. After all, that's what ethanol is. But as expensive as gasoline might get, fueling a car on single malt scotch would be more wasteful than lighting your cigar with a hundred-dollar bill. Yet that's just what one Mark Reynier is doing. Well, almost, ...
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Cheers! Scottish researchers turn whiskey into butanol (sort of) 1282060560
Drinking and driving is a bad idea, but drinking to help put fuel in the tank? That's worth looking into. Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University in the Scotland have come up with a new biobutanol development process that uses the whiskey by-products pot ale and draff. Pot ale, says the BBC, ...

