London buses are being powered by a new fuel: Coffee
British startup bio-bean has partnered with Shell (RDSB) and Argent Energy to form a coffee-based biofuel that may be utilized in London's diesel buses.
The company has made vi,000 liters of low oil for the trial with London's transportation authority -- enough to assist power the equivalent of 1 town bus for a year.
The startup collects used dregs from cafes, restaurants and factories, and transports them to its employment facility. There, the grounds area unit dried before low oil is extracted.
he low oil is then blending with alternative fuels to form B20 biofuel, which might be utilized in diesel buses while not modification.
io-bean estimates that UK produces five hundred,000 tonnes of dregs a year, most of that area unit discarded in landfills wherever they'll emit harmful greenhouse gases.
"There is big potential for this project to expand within the U.S., that drinks the foremost low on the earth, four hundred million cups of per day," the corporate aforementioned in an exceedingly written statement.

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