Your Favourite Coffee, Soon to power your car too

It seems as though the coffee we drink to stay up all day has more than one use to it... Now it can power your car too.
Scientists have advanced their work on giving used coffee waste a second lease-on-life as a viable fuel source for cars.

A study by the University of Bath found that the waste material of beans originating from a number of geographic areas, and of different varieties, could be used to produce the biofuel.

Researchers from the University’s Centre for Sustainable Technologies were able to turn 10 kilograms of coffee grounds into two-litres of biofuel.

Reports say the discovery may not be entirely new. In 2011, a car running on coffee grounds broke the world speed record for a car powered by organic waste, while companies such as Beanergi in the UK collect coffee grounds from London cafes and turn the unwanted material into pellets used to heat homes and offices.

The latest study, however, has found that all waste coffee grounds has reasonably standard composition and relevant physical properties, irrespective of their source.

For years, scientists have been working on ways to turn organic matter into biofuel. The difference with this plan is there is no need to grow fields of crops for the sole purpose of producing energy, reports caradvice.com.au.

The coffee grounds would otherwise end up as landfill and given the rate of coffee consumption by people all over the world, it is being billed as a sustainable fuel source.