While many humans claim to be coffee powered , some enterprising Brits have developed a car that actually is coffee powered. The group calls itself the Teesdale Conservation Volunteers of Durham, England.
The group chose a Rover SD1 with a 6 cylinder engine, and then added a custom-designed gasifier to produce fuel to power it. This is actually the second coffee car the group has produced. The first one was developed as an attempt to utilize the waste products of coffee shops in England. The second version builds on the first, and actually set a Guinness World Record for fastest gasification powered car, with an average speed of 66.5 miles per hour.
So what, exactly, is gasification? It utilizes any organic, carbon-based material, like coffee beans, to produce a synthetic gas that is used to power an internal combustion engine. Oxygen is added to the fuel source, which is then heated up to a temperature of almost 1300 degrees. At that point, the syngas begins to flow, and powers the car.
The real goal of the car wasnt the world record, but rather, to demonstrate how alternative and renewable green energy can be used to power cars. While the process is somewhat inconvenient, and nowhere near consumer-ready, it does show that it is possible to use waste products as a fuel source.
After the break, check out the video explaining how the car was developed.
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