Ethanol will indeed work... however its much trickier to get it to work. It has to be very free of water, for one thing, and its affinity for water is greater than Methanol is. They both do like water but Ethanol more so and the whole procedure gets a little bit difficult when using it we are seeing. Its just simply easier to use Methanol. However we are doing some work here using Ethanol as we are attempting to do a complete Bio/Off grid/agricultural by product full loop thing. We are using Solar Power to run the electrical grid for the "Still" and back up power by Bio Diesel fueled Generator and Ethanol/Sodium Hydroxide catalyst and various Oil sources, including waste oils. Then the small truck we use to go get the Oil is, of course, Bio Diesel powered. We do have a lot of problems dealing with Ethanol in that process though. We are also working with some alternate sources of Base for the catalyst too. Hopefully, in the end, it will all be self sustaining, renewable, and Agricultural products doing the entire thing.

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