December 9, 2008
Engineers at the University of Nevada have reported that they’ve created a high quality bio-diesel fuel made from coffee grounds. They believe that they could produce about 340 million gallons of fuel from the world’s used coffee grounds, and make $8 million in profits from Starbucks’ waste alone.
[via EcoGeek]
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Uhhh, this isn’t news. Brazil has been doing this for years already.
For example, from 2006:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33904
December 9th, 2008 at 7:21 pm