Comments on: British Team Constructs Coffee-Powered Car

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iphone firmware — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:31:31 +0000

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By: K Cups

K Cups — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:34:14 +0000

What is wrong with you people? The “fuel” coffee grounds is almost 10 times more expensive than gas.

They should have made it run on used coffee grounds. At least that would have been progressive…

By: Jessicat

Jessicat — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:09:05 +0000

There is a big debate about how much the cost is. With a spike on demand, the price on coffee will rise. Though I think everyone has come up with better liquids to use then coffee.

By: Jessicat

Jessicat — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:09:05 +0000

There is a big debate about how much the cost is. With a spike on demand, the price on coffee will rise. Though I think everyone has come up with better liquids to use then coffee.

By: Low Acid Coffee

Low Acid Coffee — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:14:33 +0000

This type of car is new to me. I wonder what type of coffee brand must be put on this car's “coffee tank”. Anyway this car is a good invention, because it doesn't need expensive fuel in order to make it run.

By: enrolled agent study guide

enrolled agent study guide — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:03:30 +0000

Not as cool as the chocolate-powered car. And not as fun, either. )

I think it's interesting how people will bend over backwards trying to find alternative fuels– even if they're COMPLETELY impractical or expensive. So you can power a car with coffee grounds. Big deal. Why aren't these super-smart people working to find an alternative that is actually useful?

By: Nikkita Croix

Nikkita Croix — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:02:27 +0000

It would have been more clever if they had made it out of a Suzuki Cappuccino.

The technology that they used to make this car is not new. They simply used a "wood gas generator", otherwise known as a gasifier, and added some coffee grounds. This technology has been around since the 19th century.

Hooray for alternative fuel!

By: SubHero

SubHero — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:17:41 +0000

The proper alternative fuels are: number one – bio diesel made from algae which produces the highest amount of oil per weight, is the fastest growing plant (100-300 times the speed of corn), can be grown on places that are not farmland and since it can be grown in tanks it has a very high used land per product ratio (several times higher than any dry land based plant). Since it grows so fast it also consumes considerable amounts of CO2 which is another great benefit.

The second source is garbage biomass (meat industry waste, kitchen waste or agricultural byproducts) which can be turned into crude oil and subsequently plastic or even jet fuel alternatives.

Nothing else! Especially NOT CORN which represents HUGE NET ENERGY LOSS i.e. more energy is required to make fuel out of corn than the corn based fuel gives of. I hate the Americans for subsidizing this stupid cornophilia when the real solutions are not being properly exploited.