A Car Called The Nissan Leaf Runs On Whiskey? Now This Is Green Driving
A Distillery in Scotland has a business of manufacturing of good whisky for its customers. But behind the products they produce is a system of self sustenance and a green method of power generation and recycling.
Literally, The Nissan Leaf of Bruichladdich Whiskey Distillery situated on the Scottish Isle of Islay utlzes whiskey by products to supply energy to this electric car as its fuel. The distillery used to dump its liquid mass waste material by ferrying it out to sea. This cost their business of up to $30,000.00 per year. Today, instead dumping these unwanted waste out to sea and contributing to pollution, the establishment learned to harness energy from the bio mass.
Using malt as the main ingredient, there is a considerable volume for the distillery to process. They introduced to anaerobic digesters and with the aid of bacteria, produced a bi product called Methane. Methane could be used to power the entire distillery including a Nissan Leaf Vehicle, reported by inhabitat.
The Nissan Leaf is an electric car. The electricity that is harnessed from the bio waste process and converted to electrical energy is used to charge the Nissan Leaf. The Nissan was made the reigning European and world car of that year as stated by auto blog.
The Distillery hopes that, one day, they would achieve their goal as a zero waste manufacturing plant. All their waste material are now recycled in for the benefit of the business. Draff or spent barley for example is recovered by neighboring farmers and use it to feed their cows. The cows' slurry or manure is used to fertilize the fields of barley for the distillery.
The bi product known as pot ale, is left over liquid after the distillation process is converted into biogas. Biogas in effect powers the generator that supply electrical energy throughout the Distillery.
"This course of action is an answer to global warming and climate change as our processes are environment friendly", said Mark Reynier, owner of Bruichladdich Whiskey Distillery.
