http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-02/kinki-bio-coke-man-smelts-steel-from-japanese-coffee-grounds-and-old-tea-leaves/ News.3Yen.com - Japanese News Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:22:02 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-02/kinki-bio-coke-man-smelts-steel-from-japanese-coffee-grounds-and-old-tea-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-341959 MARKed TRAIL Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:09:35 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2008-08-02/kinki-bio-coke-man-smelts-steel-from-japanese-coffee-grounds-and-old-tea-leaves/#comment-341959 Semi-BOGUS. All they did was turn old coffee grounds into charcoal-like fuel (analogous to the way charcoal is produced from wood) that is highly compressed. The converted coffee grounds works as coke fuel for smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. I bet they adding tar to the coffee grounds to aid producing the "bio-coke." <img width="340" height="400" src='http://news.3yen.com/wp-content/images/pinkfloydfactory340x400.jpg' alt='pink floyd factory' /> Semi-BOGUS.
All they did was turn old coffee grounds into charcoal-like fuel (analogous to the way charcoal is produced from wood) that is highly compressed. The converted coffee grounds works as coke fuel for smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. I bet they adding tar to the coffee grounds to aid producing the “bio-coke.”

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