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From cask to car, could red wine be Australia's next fuel? (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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What do you think of this idea? I had this image of people going to the petrol pump and taking a swig, but if the boffins can do something useful with all the warehoused unsellable wine it might help in various ways.

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago

No , that's incredibly unlikely. A standard 5 oz glass of wine contains about 120 to 130 kcal. In contrast, the same volume of standard gasoline packs roughly 10,000 kcal.

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