Coffee May Soon Power Up Your Car
Aside from waking you up in the morning, coffee may soon be needed by your car to run on the road. University researchers from Nevada in the United States have produced a high quality diesel fuel from used coffee grounds.
It is projected that the coffee diesel fuel industry may generate $8 million in profits yearly if a company will use the coffee grounds that will be thrown by branches of Starbucks in the US alone.
The proponents of the study found out that 11% to 20% of the beans are oil basing it on its weight. This serves as the foundation of the production of the biodiesel from other plant products like soy and palm.
Coffee is also the second most traded commodity around the globe and given the volume of waste produced by the industry, there will be a big potential to produce more biodiesel for public consumption. Sixteen million pounds of coffee grounds thrown away each year will be able to boost the production of biodiesel by as much as 340 million gallons.
Starbucks alone throw away around 210 million pounds of used coffee grounds in the United States alone. This waste material can be recycled to make 2.92 million gallons of high quality biodiesel.
One limitation the production of coffee biodiesel may encounter is its higher price compared to other regular diesel products. This can only be solved by utilizing as much as waste materials from other industries to produce the alternative fuel.
Doing the math, one can assume coffee biodiesel to range from $3 to $4.5 per gallon. It will be a very profitable industry. If one will ask, yes, biodiesel from coffee smells like coffee.
More on the subject right here on New Car Fuels!
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