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How lol? Wht technically is e85
lol Moonshine.
Make a reflux still with a valved head, buy some sugar and yeast in bulk, and start producing E95 (105+ Octane) for about 1.75$ a gallon initially. :blurock: You can only produce near 100% alcohol in a vacuum environment; thus E95.
Best part of all is you can make fuel legally if you choose to fill out the proper ATF form (which costs nothing to do).
To make a legal fuel you have to denature the spirit (which is what denatured alcohol is that you can buy in any store - moonshine with methanol added to it so it can not be consumed by a human). If you cut it with as little as 3% gasoline (E-85 - 90 at this point depending on how much water is absorbed) it is totally legal to produce with the form filled out.
Furthermore the Fed pays you to make it; you receive a tax deduction for every gallon of fuel that you produce (which brings your cost per gallon back down to near 1$)!
Furthermore ethyl alcohol is multi purpose! It can also be used in stove top burners, heaters, camp stove burners, and as a disinfectant!
Your reflux still makes very pure alcohol in a single pass but can also be used to make perfumes, purify water (distilled water), and other things as well.
You could drink it too (before you cut it with gas obviously lol) but that is against the law!
Its pretty much what Vodka is though..
Now you know :-D