Don Coatney Posted February 20, 2013 Report Posted February 20, 2013 Wonder how my flattie would do on high powered coffee beans? Follow the link and watch the video. ttp://www.extremetech.com/extreme/97287-british-coffee-powered-car-breaks-world-record Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted February 20, 2013 Report Posted February 20, 2013 I am not knocking the article mind you but gasification is not a new process, actually it is the regualted method in new hydronics systems.. and the speed of a vehicle such powered is increasing as proved buy the article..I cannot in any manner agree with the green effect of the build...coffee is not cheap either...now what about the fuel/energy used to heat the mixture to the 700 plus degrees..how green is that application..it is not even mentioned..just curious as to range of vehicle on a single fill of beans/support fuel etc and total cost involved to go that distance..even if it got 50 MPH is that going to be economical given the cost of raw material..inquiring minds would like to read a bit more.. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted February 20, 2013 Report Posted February 20, 2013 (edited) after a bit of running about today, shopping, paying bills and the stop at the doctors office...I am back home and I have taken a minute to find some specs on the coffee car..seems there are a number of these being tested and only one had actual data on cost and only on the coffee ratio not including the alternate fuel to gasify the solid..given the cost of a kilo of coffee is a tad over 8.00 we will use 8.00 for a fudge gactor in their favor...so to get anywhere near the specs of my current mini van that accelerates smoothly to sustained crusie of 75MPH...you will need to burn some 8 kilo of coffee (17.6 lbs)...how much charcoal it would take to gassify 8 kilo of coffee is not stated so that factor is not even added to the operational cost...so coffee cost only is equal to paying 64.00 for a gallon of gas.... Edited February 20, 2013 by Plymouthy Adams Quote
Don Coatney Posted February 21, 2013 Author Report Posted February 21, 2013 So you gonna quit drinkin coffee? Suggest you switch to beans as they do produce a lot of gas. Perhaps someone should look into bean gas as an alternate fuel Quote
greg g Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Jeez if they were in this country, they could probably get s sponsorship fro Starbucks and all their beans for free, Then the liscence plate could say Vente. Which i any language means over priced. Quote
Don Coatney Posted February 21, 2013 Author Report Posted February 21, 2013 I watched a news clip today where some idiot paid close to fifty bucks for a cup of custom brew from Starbuckeroos Quote
Robert Horne Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Coffee beans, heck they should try Pinto beans for alot more power.... Quote
Uncle-Pekka Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Come on... I did not even bothered to study, on what excuse they talk about "coffee gas" - look at the devices they build: They have merely copied the CO-gas system that was used widely in Europe during WW2 to run cars on CO produced from wood burning in low oxygene. Almost pisses me of that they try to camouflage the old invention and make it fancy new invention. P.S. Every now and then there is some hermit who builds such car here in Finland and drive virtually for free using wood sticks. When the state officers find out, they send him a fuel tax which will make it 3-times more expensive to regular gas... It has happened in my home village as well. Here is the same thing, set up in 1940. On a Plymouth P6. Quote
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