New device can make ethanol at home

Company will deliver raw material as needed

SACRAMENTO

This is how it will work: Interested motorists will buy the microfueler and keep it at home, probably in the garage. A normal wall socket and water supply are all that’s needed to churn the waste into ethanol. GreenHouse Energy will supply the liquid waste at no charge.

Motorists can then pull the car up and pump the ethanol at the going market price, currently about $2 a gallon. They will be billed a fixed rate for the fuel pumped, most likely monthly. The pump machine can make 40 gallons a day and will automatically notify the distributor when supplies are running low, company officials say.

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