Australia's wine industry is investigating whether its current 263 million litre glut of wine would be better used as biofuel to power cars, trucks or even aircraft.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/32975068

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.

  • endless_nameless@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Some strong symbolism here. Something made for no purpose other than pleasure, with a long history of bringing people together, forming culture, celebrating happiness, etc. Then pour it into your car to destroy it just to get to work. The machine is hungry…