biofuel

This homorous film outlines the basic method of making the alternative fuel biodiesel. Please note that it does not depict ideal safety practices. A more detailed, safe and higher quality film is currently under production.

Pucheen has evolved from the Ballinamore Permaculture Group which started to show documentaries on a Tuesday night in McGirl's Bar, Ballinamore in early 2005. A diverse range of documentaries have been shown on all aspects of low-impact, sustainable living in the meantime.

One of the first film's we showed was Alcohol Can Be A Gas which describes how alcohol can be used as a fuel and how in fact, it was the original fuel used in combustion engines. The documentary covers much more in it's 150 minutes including permaculture techniques, growing crops for alcohol production, brewing and distilling alcohol, how to adjust your engine to run efficiently on alcohol and much more. Poteen (poitín as Gaeilge) started to become a theme...