Coffee is well known for being able to power the economic engine that is America's workforce. Even the smell of coffee gets some people going. But its not particularly good at powering actual engines. It's much better at making compost, if you're going to try and find something to do with it.
Well, that may no longer be the case. Some chemical engineers at the University of Nevada are reporting that they've made a high quality bio-diesel from coffee grounds. Coffee grounds are actually about 15% oil, which isn't a great percentage for a bio-diesel crop. Unless you don't have to grow it, and companies might actually pay you to help get rid of it.
This week, a look at making diesel from coffee grounds.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "Delay is the deadliest form of denial." - C. Northcote Parkinson (British historian and author of some sixty books, 1909 - 1993)
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Diesel, Made Simply From Coffee Grounds
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