Cars run on coffee grounds

A television host in the UK has successfully designed a car that uses coffee grounds instead of gasoline.

Telegraph said Jem Stansfield, BBC1's Goes The Theory State presenter, has just driven from the BBC TV center in London to attend the British Scientists and Engineers Exhibition in Manchester City. on March 11. The distance is about 336 km in length. The vehicle he drove was a 1988 Volkswagen Sirocco. The special feature of the car is its engine that operates with espresso.

Espresso is prepared by using hot water under high pressure (about 9 to 10 bar) through ground coffee powder. It is formulated with this method very bold and has a brown foam on the face - which is an important contributor to the aroma of coffee.

Jem Stansfield in the 1988 Volkswagen Sirocco runs on coffee grounds at the BBC television center.

Stansfield designed the car to prove that coffee grounds could become a fuel. The car is equipped with a system that turns coffee grounds into combustible gases. The engine operates by the heat that gases produce during combustion. The car reaches a maximum speed of 96 km / h. Every 64 km, it needs to receive coffee grounds once.

With this invention, Stansfield wants to encourage young people to create useful products from discarded things and new materials.

'Everyone recognizes that coffee can make us work more efficiently, but perhaps many people don't think it can power cars. The important thing is that young people have to understand that energy replacing gasoline is not something far away or mysterious , 'he said.

Stansfield's car received people's welcome when it came to Manchester City even though it had trouble four times and had to stop in the road for a long time because of coffee grounds.