Coffee really can get you on the move!
Many a weekday morning and the air around London is filled with the enticing smell of coffee. Normally it’s from commuters having a quick pick-me up on the way into work, but soon it could be coming from the exhaust pipes of London buses…
Why you may ask? Well it’s another option in the battle to find more eco friendly bio-fuel. The fuel comes from oil that’s extracted from ground coffee, of which there is increasingly a lot.
Just in the UK for example, we consume half a million tonnes of coffee each year! It’s a volume which could power a city like Manchester says Arthur Kay, the green entrepreneur driving the coffee in buses agenda. He’ll be introducing a coffee run bus to London this summer - keep a nose out for it.
When you’re used to fuelling up at the pump it sounds a little hard to imagine, but unpredictable bio-fuels have been doing the rounds for a while - Sweden at one point used the carcasses of rabbits that had been culled to make fuel. That didn’t go down to well.
However the country is still way ahead of many in terms of extracting the answer to the ideal bio-fuel. Residents in Stockholm are given different coloured bags for disposing of their food waste so that experiments can be done around what might work best.
There is some pressure to come to a conclusion. Back in 2009, the EU set a target for 10% of transport in EU countries to use renewable energy as fuel - not sure what that will mean for the UK when Brexit is a done deal? At any rate, it’s a good excuse to keep drinking lots of coffee...
Why you may ask? Well it’s another option in the battle to find more eco friendly bio-fuel. The fuel comes from oil that’s extracted from ground coffee, of which there is increasingly a lot.
Just in the UK for example, we consume half a million tonnes of coffee each year! It’s a volume which could power a city like Manchester says Arthur Kay, the green entrepreneur driving the coffee in buses agenda. He’ll be introducing a coffee run bus to London this summer - keep a nose out for it.
When you’re used to fuelling up at the pump it sounds a little hard to imagine, but unpredictable bio-fuels have been doing the rounds for a while - Sweden at one point used the carcasses of rabbits that had been culled to make fuel. That didn’t go down to well.
However the country is still way ahead of many in terms of extracting the answer to the ideal bio-fuel. Residents in Stockholm are given different coloured bags for disposing of their food waste so that experiments can be done around what might work best.
There is some pressure to come to a conclusion. Back in 2009, the EU set a target for 10% of transport in EU countries to use renewable energy as fuel - not sure what that will mean for the UK when Brexit is a done deal? At any rate, it’s a good excuse to keep drinking lots of coffee...
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