Hello, here’s a thread from vox.de to yesterday’s show: The company Müllermilch has an idea: from the waste product whey bioethanol is to be extracted. Is whey the alternative for expensive petrol? 18 months it took for the suitable plant for the extraction of bioethanol from whey to be developed. Now – in the middle of the discussions about bioethanol – it is finished. Project manager Hanno Lehmann explains why whey can be safely converted to bioethanol: “We don’t need a new raw material for bioethanol, but instead take a waste product that contains residual energy. We implement it to bioethanol.” So far, whey has been used primarily as animal feed, but it is a versatile raw material and there is more than enough of it. 1.6 billion litres of raw milk flow every year through the machines of the miller’s location in Leppersdorf. On every litre of milk, this is called new whey. The whey is produced in the cheese process.