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I'm Growing Coffee From Now on!
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09-01-2009 05:56PM#1I'm starting to see can I grow coffee in my garden.
If I can, I might actually be able to buy Dell out (eventually) and fire the managing directors!
Why?Coffee could replace diesel
Many people find that coffee is a good source of fuel in the morning, but now that could literally become the case - as bio-diesel sourced from coffee beans could soon run our cars. And, some will be most pleased to note, the fuel maintains that pleasant coffee aroma.
Researchers at the University of Nevada have found that ground coffee is 10-15 percent oil, which is easily extractable and turned into bio-diesel. What's more, it could be offered for as little as 60p per US gallon - that's around 16p per litre!
Coffee is in abundant enough supply to provide hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel every year, and the oil can be extracted from leftover grounds - so we shouldn't find ourselves missing out on our morning coffee for the sake of fuel.
And the find was stumbled across by accident, according to chief researcher Mano Misra, who said: "I had left my coffee out one night, and the next morning, I noticed that there was a kind of oil around the edge of the cup." Misra then collected used ground coffee from Starbucks and found extracting the oil was easy.
There are over 7.2 million tonnes of coffee produced worldwide each year from which to extract fuel and it's also more stable than traditional bio-fuel because of coffee's high antioxidant content. A larger scale pilot scheme is now underway to see how viable coffee could be as a genuine fuel source.
Source: http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/09012009/36/coffee-replace-diesel-0.html
Who's up for it?
Let make some money and buy out Dell!
Now where did I put me shovel!
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Yeah it seems like anything can be biofuel nowadays. Maybe even us. Soylent Green diesel is people.
Remember "Alive!": When I die, I want you to eat me grind me up into biofuel.
I like your thinking, people are 70% water, extract the water, then the Hydrogen from the water and use it to power cars. "Soylent Diesel" has a nice ring to it.
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