Get Your Very Own Personal Refinery

Check this out! Making fuel has never been easier than it is with the E-Fuel 100 Microfueler. The Microfueler can be hooked up to standard water and electricity fixtures at home, using water, yeast and sugar to fuel your ride.

The Microfueler, which has about the same bulk as a washer dryer, makes generating ethanol at home about as hard as tossing in a load of laundry. Add the ingredients, push a button, wait a few days, and you have ethanol for less than a dollar per gallon. Too-good-to-be-true, meet reality.

Not surprisingly, the fuel isn't free. The microfueler itself will run you $10k, and consumers still have to contend with the cost of water, sugar, and energy to make the stuff.  But the Microfueler's downsides look rosy compared to rumblings of $10/gallon gas. The Microfueler is meant to run on raw sugar, but has some limited flexibility in feedstocks, such as high fructose corn syrup or alcohol. And while running 100% ethanol in one’s car is still bizarrely illegal (damn you, fossil lobby, damn you!), that is both nearly impossible to regulate and easily defeated by mixing in a gallon or two of the dirty stuff. Watch this thing become a staple appliance.

Read more at Wired.