According to the agreement, the beer company has agreed to provide 28 tons of spent beer yeast per week, where the leftover waste is collected by GreenHouse and is distributed throughout California to the business-owners and to houses where they can distill their own ethanol using the E-Fuel MicroFueler system.
The E-Fuel MicroFueleris a portable ethanol micro-refinery fuel system for consumer use.
Chris Ursitti, chief executive officer of GreenHouse, said: “One person’s waste can be another’s treasure. Karl Strauss has taken an enormous step in creating essential clean energy by providing its waste not just to GreenHouse but to the entire state of California.”
The company’s business model includes setting up, delivery and servicing of MicroFueler unit at customers’ home or business.
Using the semiconductor technology, the appliance-sized MicroFueler units include pump-stations and ethanol distillers that require three kilowatts of electricity to produce one gallon of E-Fuel100 which could generate around 23 kilowatts of energy. E-Fuel100 is made up of 100% ethanol biofuel.
