The Coffee Car

Coffee fuels caffeine addicts throughout America, but can it fuel your car? Apparently so, according to a recent study by students at the University of Nevada at Reno. The study shows that "coffee grounds can yield 10-15% of biodiesel by weight relatively easily".

There are plenty of other products out there that can be used for biodiesel, such as corn, cooking oil and peanut oil. However, coffee grounds rank among some of the most efficient sources, seeing as how it takes about 20kg of grounds to produce a gallon of biofuel, at about $1 per gallon.

Best part of all? There are plenty of these resources available. Estimates show that more than 7 million tons of coffee are consumed every year, which would make about 343 million gallons of biofuel. The even better news is that it only produces a faint smell of coffee when burning.

For more information about biofuel from coffee grounds, head over to The Economist.

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[Moving Company Westchester County NY]

If coffee is used by all as car fuel, the world will no longer face the dilemma of increasing oil price