The goal of this project is to create an alternative fuel source using only grass and the carbohydrate extraction process. We aim to build a machine that will achieve this process, using grass as the only input, forgoing the need for any chemical additives. The reason why we are aiming to do so is to make the whole process as cheap and accessible as possible, in order for communities who need fuel to benefit from not needing an abundance of resources. Our project's main purpose is to benefit those in parts of the world that don't have access to cheap, easy to obtain fuel sources.
Despite ethanol being a well-known renewable fuel, current methods of mass production of cellulosic ethanol are impractical and inaccessible. Extracting fermentable carbohydrates from cellulosic material is an energy intensive and costly processes. Our goal is to make more effective methods of carbohydrate extraction from widely available sources of cellulosic material to make ethanol fuel production more attractive to industry and more accessible to rural communities.