starbucks biodiesel Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:27:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Coffee Grounds Can Be Used to Create Nice Smelling Biodiesel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biodiesel-from-coffee-grounds-20081212/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biodiesel-from-coffee-grounds-20081212/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:27:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1340 Nevada researchers have recently found out that waste coffee grounds can be used to create biodiesel. Mano Misra, Susanta Mohapatra, and Narasimharao Kondamudi discovered that spent coffee grounds contain 11 to 20% oil by weight, as much as traditional biodiesel sources of palm, rapeseed or soybean oil.

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