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Tokenserious23 t1_ivat31l wrote
The rights have probably already been bought and burned to the ground. The oil industry is hell-bent on world domination.
scillaren t1_ivb0r5u wrote
Lol, big oil doesn’t give a shit about this. The whole world together makes about 10-12 million tons of whole coffee a year. The US burns 3 million tons of petroleum a day. The potential scale of this is irrelevant to big oil.
thunderingparcel t1_ivbd8c8 wrote
It’s not a 1:1 ratio of coffee input to diesel output. I agree, though, that this is probably not scalable to that extent.
scillaren t1_ivbfnyb wrote
You’re right, it’ll be way less than 1:1. And Chlorella production is really hard to scale. All of the Chlorella produced in the world wouldn’t be enough to feed even a tiny 10kbd refinery.
slide2k t1_ivbd8pt wrote
This! They might buy it just to show they are going “green”. Most of them are working on their PR with green stuff.
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dkran t1_ivb3ugl wrote
When I grew phytoplankton, I was honestly shocked at the possibility of using the grow farm for numerous applications as an amateur. I’d imagine professional biologists can work these things to wonders.
brett_riverboat t1_ivg6pi0 wrote
Algae always seems to be a dead end.
scillaren t1_ivgc41q wrote
Algae are very good at doing certain things and very bad at others. For biofuels, the issue has largely been that people extrapolating from the lab don’t account for the vulnerability of these organisms in the wild (single cell non-extremophile algae don’t form natural monocultures period), and way way way underestimating the entropic costs of dewatering a single celled bug that behaves as a colloid.
But when algae do what they’re good at it works great. No baby formula DHA without (heterotrophic) algae.
Xunaun t1_ivai89b wrote
ExxonMobil executives: hands money to man with bald head, barcode tattoo, and fancy suit
Kindnexx t1_ivan6h3 wrote
You just need the suitcase tbh, pack it with cash
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scillaren t1_ivbfxgl wrote
They already have their greenwashing ticket, they’ve been funding biofuels work at a biotech in San Diego for the last decade or so, still not making any fuel.
musicantz t1_ivcgarh wrote
I work at a plant that’s going to make renewable fuels from cooking oil at large scale. The company also makes biofuels from corn at scale. It’s the hottest trend in the fuels market today. Mostly because of government credits (it doesn’t work without them because crude is still way cheeper).
Larrythekitty t1_ivb4ss5 wrote
Coffee, the universal productivity supplement.
GunderM t1_ivbldak wrote
No joke. Europe gets coffee, next the enlightenment happened.
AdamWestsButtDouble t1_ivbp3av wrote
Still waiting for it to kick in in America. Maybe we’re not making it strong enough.
Steinrikur t1_ivc6nt4 wrote
You and your Americanos and Ventis. Have some espressos, and do stupid stuff 3 times faster
mrtnclrk t1_ivazd8p wrote
I wonder what the yield is for coffee ground biodiesel. 98 million pounds of coffee grounds to liters of diesel anyone?
scillaren t1_ivb0ysp wrote
The article says 98 million cups of coffee. Not thinking many folks brew at 1lb of grounds per cup.
mrtnclrk t1_ivcit1v wrote
ahhh yes i messed that. admittedly iv been close to that with my jetfuel lmao
youjerkfaceyou t1_ivcyhma wrote
It has to be better than using petroleum products to grow corn to then turn into ethanol.
The_Shadow_Of_Yor t1_ivaly3a wrote
Calling it now, we’ll never hear about this ever again