Australia's wine industry is investigating whether its current 263 million litre glut of wine would be better used as biofuel to power cars, trucks or even aircraft.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/32975068

What do you think of this idea? I had this image of people going to the petrol pump and taking a swig, but if the boffins can do something useful with all the warehoused unsellable wine it might help in various ways.

  • Jesusaurus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    No , that’s incredibly unlikely. A standard 5 oz glass of wine contains about 120 to 130 kcal. In contrast, the same volume of standard gasoline packs roughly 10,000 kcal.