News tagged with ground coffee

From food waste to bus fuel and biofertilizer

Banana peel, coffee grounds and other food waste will be transformed into green fuel for Oslo’s city buses starting next year. The Norwegian capital’s new biogas plant will also supply nutrient-rich ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Carbonized coffee grounds remove foul smells

For coffee lovers, the first cup of the morning is one of life's best aromas. But did you know that the leftover grounds could eliminate one of the worst smells around – sewer gas?

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this "gripping" mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (26) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

BBC Science Team Builds Coffee Fueled Car... The Carpuccino

(PhysOrg.com) -- Think you need a lot of coffee to get going in the morning? How about 56 espressos? That’s the kind of power the experimental car, the "Carpuccino," needs just to travel one mile!

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog




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Trashing old, unused medications best for reducing environmental impact

Returning extra medicine to the pharmacy for disposal might not be worth the extra time, money or greenhouse gas emissions, according to a University of Michigan study that is the first to look at the net ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Foxconn shows off changes at factory campus

The global controversy surrounding the treatment of assembly-line workers who manufacture iPhones and iPads - and just about every other consumer device - is triggering an unprecedented effort by Apple Inc. and its chief ...

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Judges, journalists clash over courtroom tweets

(AP) -- Getting news from a big trial once took days, moving at the speed of a carrier pigeon or an express pony. The telegraph and telephone cut that time dramatically, as did live television broadcasts.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

For businesses, going green brings in greenbacks

Nearly a third of companies now say that the adoption of sustainable practices has added to their profitability, according to a new MIT study — and manufacturing firms are in the vanguard. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Vinyl records make the world go around again

In the brave new world of MP3 players, compact discs are dying, cassettes are Stone Age, and old-fashioned vinyl records... they're back!

Technology / Other

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Space station crew anticipating SpaceX Dragon's arrival

In a media chat on Wednesday three crew members from the International Space Station said they are anticipating the historic arrival of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship to the ISS next month. “For all ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 9

Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed

For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 11

Curiosity and the solar storm

On Nov. 26th, Curiosity blasted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas 5 rocket. Riding a plume of fire through the blue Florida sky, the car-sized rover began a nine month journey to search for signs of life ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Becoming part of global, shoestring team requires researchers only to play fair, share

Asking a scientist to take part in research that has little budget, less infrastructure and almost no central bureaucracy would appear a lost cause.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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