Milk into fuel?! That's UDDERLY incredible.

[tophercrowder]

More breasts the better, INDEED!
Wonder if chocolate will be the new high octane?

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/05/canadian-company-to-turn-milk-into-ethanol-at-41m-michigan-plant.html#:~:text=LANSING%2C MI – A Canadian company plans to,near the Indiana border in St. Joseph County.

[HammerheadFistpunch]

@tophercrowder The emissions of cow fuel have got to be 3x that of drilling. Methane is a helluva greenhouse gas.

[davesaddiction]

@tophercrowder

Dairy Distillery will use its proprietary technology to transform milk permeate – a dairy byproduct that is usually dumped or sold as a low value animal feed – into ethanol.

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Hate it when headlines skew the actual facts of the story.

[facw]

@tophercrowder I mean, not at all shocking that's it's possible, milk is rich in sugar, and in central Asia, horse milk has been fermented into a (lightly) alcoholic beverage since at least antiquity.

As @HammerheadFistpunch it would be shocking if this was efficient though.

Edit: @davesaddiction points out this is byproduct which could potentially make things better?

[ForSweden]

Canadian dairy producers: ask His Majesty's Parliament for tariffs on Yankee milk
Canadian dairy producers: invade Michigan

[ForSweden]

@davesaddiction said in Milk into fuel?! That's UDDERLY incredible.:

Hate it when headlines screw the actual facts of the story.

That's how the journos get paid tho

[ibRAD]

@ForSweden When I read the article I was wondering why they set up shop in Michigan, but then I realized it probably had something to do with the milk board.

[facw]

@ForSweden Headlines are usually written by copy editors, rather than writers, at least at traditional media outfits. I'd assume even at online publications they have some sort of clickbait specialist (with A/B testing skills)

[tophercrowder]

@ibRAD said in Milk into fuel?! That's UDDERLY incredible.:

@ForSweden When I read the article I was wondering why they set up shop in Michigan, but then I realized it probably had something to do with the milk board.

no, it was the $751,900 Michigan tax break.

[ibRAD]

@tophercrowder Probably didn't hurt!

[Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist]

@ForSweden said in Milk into fuel?! That's UDDERLY incredible.:

Canadian dairy producers: ask His Majesty's Parliament for tariffs on Yankee milk
Canadian dairy producers: invade Michigan

You forgot the part where Canadians set fire to the capital.

[ForSweden]

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist Canada didn't exist in 1814

[ranwhenparked]

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist in retaliation for the earlier burning of York (present-day Toronto) and Port Dover in Upper Canada. At least they confined themselves to government and military buildings, as opposed to burning the entire town as happened with the latter two

[ttyymmnn]

@HammerheadFistpunch

Cow farts are destroying the planet.

[ttyymmnn]

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist

You forgot the part where Canadians set fire to the capital

I thought was the British MO

[Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist]

@ForSweden You didn't exist in 1814.

[ForSweden]

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist tru

[kiltedpadre]

@tophercrowder I was just listening to an interview with a woman that runs a company called Wheyward Distilling that is turning whey from cheese production into alcohol.
They currently sell something similar to vodka and are getting ready to launch what they’re calling wheysky.
It’s not currently available in my state, but I could have my arm twisted to try it.

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@kiltedpadre
Whey or milk vodka is definitely a thing. As is potato vodka. And the more typical grain vodka. Oddly enough...they all taste like vodka!