So you want to make your own gas replacement huh? Okay I am going to show you how to make some Butanol. This stuff is amazing and can be substituted drop for drop for Gasoline. Now pay attention because this is going to be a little hard to follow... 

First you will need your Fibrous Bed BioReactor   you Do have one right? No? Well we'll just have to go to the 1917 recipe. Yep 1917 is correct. This stuff has been around awhile. Probably helped win W W I but not for the gasoline replacing properties but that is a whole other story. Anyway....

To make some Butanol just  get out your Clostridium acetobutylicum microbes (Wonder bugs) Pictured below

You will need 14 lbs of sugar. Any kind will do  and you will also need a large pot of some kind. Sterility is very important, so make sure you use a clean pot.

Put the sugar in the pot and add one cup of Bugs and wait and wait and wait.   Keep a close watch on your gas chromatograph and with a little luck you will get some Acetone, Ethanol, and mostly Butanol.  All you have to do now is separate them. Sorry, but I haven't got a clue as to how to do this.

So there you are! You have made some Nail polish remover for the wife, some  Butanol to cut the grass and some Ethanol to do with what ever you want.

I should mention here that these bugs are also in the same family of microbes that secrete in their active form powerful exotoxins that are responsible for diseases such as tetanus, botulism, and gas gangrene. Yum yum! So very important note here.... MAKE SURE YOU GET THE RIGHT BUGS!  Else, homeland security could be paying you a visit real soon. 

If only it were really this easy. Well, it could be almost that easy if you had one of these. 

This is a pic of the bio reactor that you do not have. More information is available at www.butanol.com

One last thing. I have heard a lot about the smell of this fuel so I emailed  David Ramey of EEI about this and he was kind enough to reply. Here it is.

"Not to my knowledge.  Maybe butyric acid but not butanol.  How long did
it take you to deal with the smell of gasoline?"  

"There is no smell out the tail pipe."

"The only major drawback to butanol is we are not making any and putting
it into our current cars and going down the road with it."

David E. Ramey

Physicist, Inventor, President
Environmental Energy, Inc
 

So there you go, it doesn't stink and may even smell a little like bannanas. Sounds good to me!