Whisk(e)y for Sale

[etherial]

Gordon's Liquors in Waltham is having a Whisk(e)y sale through Christmas. If y'all're interested in partaking of this sale, I can be your mule. While we're on the subject of distilled liquids, the news media has recently confirmed that you can make ethanol from kudzu. At last, we have discovered our enemy's only weakness.

Comments

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but it is not presently possible to make cellulose-based ethanol on an industrial scale, and anyone who tries to convince you of that is probably reaching for your wallet with their other hand.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

He's currently brewing it in his garage.

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

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What part of that contradicts what I said?

[etherial.livejournal.com]

What part of what you said contradicts what I said?

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

presently... on an industrial scale

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I made no mention of scale.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

They're also contingent on him getting huge piles of Venture Capital. Capital with which someone could build industry. Unless you have reason to believe that the energy cost to extract the ethanol will always be higher than the energy value of the ethanol generated, we're still left with turning a useless weed that's destroying large swaths of the country into something that isn't a drain on society.

[agthorr.livejournal.com]

Oh!

And here I thought you two were talking about creating a new (and to my mind rather bizarre) liquor. That's what I get for not following the link at all.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

You could drink it. He is distilling it in Kentucky.

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

Energy positive?

Who said what he has done is energy positive?

Look up how a still works.

Better still, start reading peer reviewed papers from some of the dozens of labs which are trying to do what he claims to have done on a useful scale.

But that is it... you're swiftly moving from ignorant to willfully stupid.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Who said what he has done is energy positive?

Certainly not I.

re: willfully stupid

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I'm being willfully stupid? You're the one who claims what he wants to do is impossible only after I shoot down your decrying that he doesn't have the infrastructure to do it. And why did you delete your magnanimous offer to cease to educate me? I LOL'd.