Anhydrous Ethanol and the Prius

I'll be curioius to see the responses to this one....
I don't know how you could produce anhydrous Ethanol (ETOH minus the "H"?), but it sounds more like someone's working on their alibi for why they've got a house full of anhydrous ammonia and pseudoephedrine to me!

In any case, it does not sound like a 'great alternative' by any means. It must be extremely dangerous, labor intensive, and, I'd bet, more expensive in the long haul to make this stuff by hand. You'd have to have all kinds of permits, probably wouldn't be allowed wherever you live (unless on a remote farm), I'm sure it creates a stink, and, even if the purest stuff is safe in the Prius (which I doubt) all you'd need is a little bit of impurity and you'd have a destroyed hybrid car.

I just don't see the benefit.

p.s. Just for the uninitiated, anhydrous ammonia and pseudoephedrine are key ingredients for making methamphetamine--Crank.

 

This reminds me of another famous discussion:

Marty McFly: So does it run on regular unleaded gasoline?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately no, it needs something with a little more kick - plutonium.
Marty McFly: Plutonium... wait, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Dr. Emmett Brown: No no no, this sucker's electrical, but it requires a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.