A Scottish renewable energy organisation has developed a whisky biofuel that has the ability to power a motor vehicle.
Utilising the ingredients common in whisky distillation, Edinburgh-based Celtic Renewables have managed to create a biofuel which can be included in consumer petrol (as much as 15%) without any engine modification.
Scientist Martin Tangney, president of Celtic Renewables and director of the Biofuel Research Centre within Edinburgh’s Napier University, said: “What I did was I look at this as a business innovation as much as a technical innovation and thought: ‘if 70 percent of the cost of production is coming from the raw materials – why not tackle that end of it?'”