Future Cars, Like Their Owners, Will Run On Coffee?
Forget electric cars – let’s start pumping our money into coffee technology. Apparently scientists in Nevada have discovered that ground coffee contains roughly the same amount of oil as other biofuels. What’s more, it has those kinds of levels even after its been used to make that sweet cup of java that gets you going in the morning. Plus, as an added bonus, the resulting biodiesel actually smells like coffee, meaning rather than noxious petrol fumes, streets will smell like a freshly brewed pot of liquid caffeine. I don’t know about you guys, but that’s the world I want to be living in.
[Physorg via Treehugger]
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Its a nice idea, but having experienced living near a Nestle factory, I can say that the joys of coffee aroma in the air does eventually get on your nerves.
That makes me wonder whether drinking 3 cups of coffee every day can give you an energy like a ferrari :D
I work in the hospitality industry and every day in my restaurant we empty enough grinds to fill about a third of a normal sized garbage bin..
I’ve often thought that if we are throwing away that much, and we are just one restaurant. How much must the rest of the world be wasting as a total?!
Maybe this is an effective idea.
The most I ever came up with was using the grinds for potting soil with the hopes that your carrots had a caffeine hit.