“We've
gone from me with a silly idea to that in just over two years”
CEO and co-founder,
bio-bean, Arthur Kay, on converting Coffee Waste into Biofuel
Coffee
is a drink best served hot especially in New Kingston and Half-Way-Tree as
reported in my blog
article entitled “Why
I love Coffee Houses in Kingston - Great place for Secret Business Meetings in
Kingston and St. Andrew”.
But
if you make your own Coffee from
the roasted beans or you buy ground Coffee, it might have occurred to you
that disposing of the Coffee waste presents a problem!
This
is where the company Bio-Bean steps in to convert Coffee waste into biofuels as
explained in the article “This
man's factory is turning waste Coffee into green energy”, published October
15 2015 by James Temperton, The Jamaica
Observer.
1.
Biomass pellets
2.
Biodiesel
So
how did this company Bio-Beans come about? And is it economically viable?
Original of Bio-Beans -
Recycling of Coffee Waste and Cooking Oil into Biofuel
Arthur
Kay, an architecture student at The Bartlett, UCL, realized as an entrepreneur
that he had Coffee all wrong. He thought he could create a Coffee house where
you could make money both from the sales of Coffee as use the Coffee waste from
the ground beans to create electricity.
However,
he soon realized that he could make money by converting Coffee water from other
people's Coffee pots into biofuel. This after he became aware of a few facts
about Coffee consumption in Britain:
1.
70 million cups of Coffee annually are
drunk in the UK
2.
500,000 tonnes of waste
3.
£80m of dispose of the Coffee waste
within the Coffee industry
Knowing
this, he started his renewable energy company Bio-Bean in a 20,000 square foot
factory, employing with 25 people over a two (2) year span. His expressed aim;
to capitalize on the growing abundance of Coffee Waste and convert it into
Biofuel.
This
idea is very similar to recycling Waste Cooking Oil, which like Coffee Waste is
usually generate in restaurants or eateries, something that HERO BX plans to do
in the Caribbean as noted in my blog article entitled
“HERO
BX commercial-scale biodiesel plant - How Jamaica can recycle Cooking Oil to
supply US$614.92 billion market”.
They
collect Coffee Waste from manufacturing plants in London as well as from Coffee
Shops in London. This is then sent to a plant in Edmonton in North London, when
it’s processed into Biodiesel with the solid waste then used to make Biomass
pellets.
Most
likely, that company uses a process involving GM (Genetically Modified)
bacteria, such as the Escherichia Coli as developed by Dr Patrik Jones of
Imperial College London as reported in my blog article entitled
“How
Imperial College London Escherichia Coli makes Propane and Biodiesel from
Cooking Gas”.
Coffee Waste to Biofuel
- Why Biofuel from Coffee Waste will be as big as Coruscant
This
would seem to imply that there is room for expansion, especially as more people
will eventually begin to live in the cities, requiring more recycling of the
waste generated rather than dumping it, to quote CEO Arthur Kay: “We're rapidly
becoming an urban species, these cities act as massive amplifiers for the good
and the bad”.
Good
to note that he's recycling the Waste from the Coffee producers who make ground
Coffee as well as Coffee shops. As the world gets more urbanized, we'll all be
drinking Coffee from Coffee houses in massive cities.
Earth
will very likely become like Coruscant, the planet in Star Wars Episode I: The
Phantom Menace, by the year 2100; one large planet-sized city.
However,
he hasn't even begun to tackle pulp waste generated from Coffee Farms in eighty
countries in South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. The big
three in Coffee production are as follows:
1.
Brazil
2.
Vietnam
3.
Indonesia
Albeit
80% of the world's CO2 emissions come from the cities as the world population
swells towards 11 billion by 2100 as projected in my blog article
entitled “United
Nations Population Division says 11.2 billion people by 2100 - Why Africa and
India Population exploding as Insect Meat is coming” there is also an
ecological disaster occurring in the Developing World Countries where Coffee is
grown.
In
short, we’re running out of Coffee!
Coffee shortage in 2016
– Drought, Agricultural Towers and Biofuel Future
There
is a coming shortage of Chocolate, made from the cocoa plant which grows under
similar conditions as reported in my blog article
entitled “Chocolate
Shortage in 2020 – Chinese, Indian and American addiction Inflates Price of
Cocoa as Jamaica needs to produce Chocolate”.
Coffee
too will also face shortages as Third World countries like Brazil face drought
as reported in the article “Global
Coffee Shortage Looms as Market Braces for Climate Change”, published
October 1, 2015 by Whitney McFerron, Bloomberg.
Being
the world’s biggest producer will affect the global supply of Coffee. Brazil
aside from battling the Zika Virus as noted in my blog article
entitled “739
Zika Virus Cases in Brazil and 2 adult deaths - How Zika Virus is causing birth
defects in unborn Brazilian babies”.
Brazil,
which produces both, will have to decide between land usage for Food Security
and housing versus growing cash crops that have no real nutritional value. This
means less or more expensive Coffee and Chocolate to satisfy the tastes of
growing affluent billions living in these massive cities.
Especially
as exotic concoctions such as glow-in-the-Dark Iced Coffee Chocolate Milk
becomes popular described in my blog article
entitled “How
to Make Glow-in-The-Dark Iced Coffee Chocolate Milk – How Coffee can be made
healthy for Children”.
In
a bid to satisfy the demand for food and luxuries like Coffee and Chocolate,
these future cities might resort to growing their food in Agricultural towers
as described in my blog article
entitled “How
IGES Canada Ltd Vertical Hydroponic Aquaponic Towers make low cost Organic
foods”.
So
companies like Bio-Bean and HERO BX are a good long-term investment, as they'll
grow as the inevitable Coruscant of the future will require food for humans and
fuel for their vehicles!
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