scillaren t1_ivb0r5u wrote
Reply to comment by Tokenserious23 in Researchers 'feed' leftover coffee grounds to microalgae to produce low emission biodiesel by Sorin61
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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