Drink beer, make fuel

Hello, all
I am not one to shy away from soda, but I have been trying to cut down/cut it out completely this year. One alternative I love is carbonated water, or club soda or seltzer, or “bubbly water” as my kids put it. I feel like I’m getting that carbonated soda-y feeling without the caffeine, sugar, or sodium. What I don’t like is buying bottles and bottles of seltzer and, even though I recycled the bottles, just felt like there could be an alternative to all the liters of water.
Sodastream is doing just that - liberating people from plastic bottles and soda cans by allowing people to make their own sodas and carbonated water at home. If the average American consumes almost 600 cans or bottles of soda every year, more than bottled water - doesn’t it make sense to stop the cycle and make your own, avoiding the waste? Here are the amazing environmental benefits of a soda maker -
• No batteries or electricity
• Reduces energy used to manufacture bottles and cans
• Reduces gas and pollution from shipping packaged beverages
• Eliminates pollution from batteries
I have the Pure home soda system, and I LOVE it. It doesn’t use electricity or batteries to work - just the power of carbon dioxide injected into their special water container. It’s very easy to use - install the carbon dioxide canister, fill the bottle with cold water, attach it to the system, and inject the CO2. You can leave the carbonated water as is, or add Sodastream’s large variety of soda-flavored syrups or natural essence water enhancers to give it great flavor.
Try the link..
www.worldwithoutbottles.com

this gives new meaning to the phrase "don't drink and drive"

If drinking beer will help the environment, I'm willing to take one for the Earth

anything u do please don't encourage people to drink.

it good that they wont sell it to farmers to feed their lifestock anymore. eating live yeast ( the bottom of barrel stuff) give you horrible gas. i would imagen that it does thesame to cow. so if they dont eat it they will produce less methane AKA green house gasses.

Yeah, I definitely agree that humanity wouldn't dream of giving up beer even to save the world. It would be nice if there was a way to sequestor all that co2 though.

Sierra Nevada is one of the greener companies out there with their methane digesters and solar panels, so it's not surprising they would be the ones doing this.

Beer is one thing we won't give up to save the planet so you might as well make good use of the waste. I have my doubts about biofuels and buying a personal fuel station for 10 grand definitely isn't my idea of being economical, but still, it's a good concept and even if only beer manufacturers used these to fuel their company cars it would still be one step to lowering their footprint.

I don't quite see the logic with biofuels. Perhaps I'm looking at it wrong, but I see the production of energy by breaking down a biological product and releasing co2. How is this cleaner or really any different than a wood fire stove? Not to mention the water and energy that goes into refining the biological component into a combustible form . . .

Also, it's worth noting that the brewery industry is pretty terrible with it's co2 emissions. Even if they had 100% clean energy input . . . the process of brewing beer requires the fermentation of sugars that releases large amounts of co2 gas.

"Global beer consumption in 2004 was 150.392 billion liters, resulting in 9,354,382 mT of CO2 emissions."

http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-co2-from-beer.php

That's the co2 emitted from just the fermentation process . . . let alone any co2 created from the huge energy demands required in the process of industrial scale production.

I know it's difficult to get upset with breweries, after all beer is . . . beer! It's the lifeblood of parties and helps people all over the world to get laid! If any consumable product deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for it's achievements in kicking ass, it's beer.

All that said, it's still worth to remember that the brewing process by nature has a significant carbon footprint.