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Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel
Julie188 writes "Researchers in Nevada are reporting that waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel for powering cars and trucks. Their study has been published online in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Growers produce more than 16 billion pounds of coffee around the world each year. Scientists estimate that spent coffee grounds can potentially add 340 million gallons of biodiesel to the world's fuel supply."
and as the price of bio-diesel goes up, so does the cost of our coffee. Eventually, none of us will be able to wake up at all.
I want my coffee to be unleaded, and my bio-diesel to be caffeinated.
You keep using that word.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
I don't even want to think about how much a gallon of Starbucks biodiesel would cost.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
..It's sort of like future gas stations will make their own biodiesel or at least get it from a supplier within 25 miles in like 80% of populated US cities or something close to that...
And in the unpopulated cities they have to rely on imports because the undead don't drink coffee.
I've been putting coffee grounds in my Mr. Fusion for years.
Given the taste of their coffee, it would likely come pre-burnt anyway.
You tell me, is $60.00 bigger than $4.00? It's been a while since I took arithmetic but I seem to remember that this is so
Confirmation on that, chief. $60 is more than $4.
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Most of the world uses the 24 hour clock. 2010 is just before quarter past 8pm.
HTH HAND.
They can't sell them fast enough because everyone is out of a job 8*)
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