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Tokenserious23 t1_ivat31l wrote

Reply to comment by The_Shadow_Of_Yor in Researchers 'feed' leftover coffee grounds to microalgae to produce low emission biodiesel by Sorin61

The rights have probably already been bought and burned to the ground. The oil industry is hell-bent on world domination.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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