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Karl Strauss
GreenHouse and Karl Strauss partner to convert 28 tons of spent yeast per week to ethanol fuel for California consumers and businesses.
About Karl Strauss
It all started back in the mid 1980s, when our fearless founders, Chris Cramer and Matt Rattner, graduated from college and moved to San Diego, Chris’ hometown. They set up shop in an apartment on Mission Beach, armed with newly minted degrees, an entrepreneurial spirit, and an appreciation for beer. Inspired by a brewpub Chris came upon while traveling through Australia, they wanted to open a microbrewery and reintroduce locally brewed handcrafted beer to San Diego, a concept banned by Prohibition in the 1930s.
GreenHouse Energy and Gordon Biersch partner together to fuel California cars with cleaner burning ethanol
GreenHouse Energy and Gordon Biersch Brewery came to an agreement today to convert 2,000 tons of spent yeast, a byproduct of beer production, into pure ethanol to fuel cars and generators throughout the state of California.
GreenHouse Energy and Gordon Biersch Brewery came to an agreement today to convert 2,000 tons of spent yeast, a bi product of beer production, into pure ethanol to fuel cars and generators throughout the state of California.
GreenHouse Energy is the exclusive distributor of the MicroFueler, the first viable ethanol micro-refinery system. This revolutionary technology gives individuals and businesses the ability to be energy independent by producing ethanol from waste, comprised of water, sugar and unused beer or other spirits, on premise.
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One person's trash is another person's gold
Thousands of businesses produce liquid waste that then must be disposed of in a responsible, environmentally friendly manner. What better way to be green than to take discarded waste and turn it into organic fuel for a gasoline-thirsty world? The MicroFueler needs feedstock -- "green juice" -- in order to complete the transition of biomass or waste into ethanol. And the raw materials for this feedstock are everywhere.
Here are some examples of viable discarded waste that can be processed into feedstock for the MicroFueler:
Some facts about waste
- The United States generates approximately 55 billion gallons of liquid waste per year -- much of this can be used as feedstock for the MicroFueler
- When improperly handled and disposed of, liquid wastes pose a serious threat to human health and the environment; they can contaminate watersheds, pollute ground water, and local sources of drinking water
Water
There's grey water, and then there is MicroFueler water
The main discard from the MicroFueler process is organicly rich H2O. Our fuel creation process is done at a much lower temperature because it is based on low-heat distillation process. When compared to gasoline, depending on the production method, ethanol releases less or even no net increases in greenhouse gases; however, it does produce a reusable waste product. Water.
