Coffee+based+log

Rod Spurls was the first man to come across some information about coffee, it stated that coffee grounds release more heat than wood when burned. Spruls wrote down the fact in a book of ideas that he keeps. A few years later when he and his wife were living in Paris he found his idea in his notebook and decided to test it out. He went to a small café to near his house to ask for some coffee grounds. At his house he dried the coffee grounds in the oven, stuffed them into an old cigar tube, added some candle wax and set it on fire. Today the Java-log is the first log made from coffee grounds, and it has become a hit with the green crowd. The log burns a lot brighter and hotter than an average sawdust log. Last year more than two million logs were sold. Spurls built a 170 litre dryer to dry the wet coffee that he was given from planet coffee. He then mixed in candle wax with the coffee grounds, added some animal feed binder, and used a car jack to compress the logs. This took him 10 minutes to produce 1 log. He tested the logs with a few people and they told him that the logs would never light, so he soon fixed that problem and the worked fine after that. Today his company, Robustion, makes logs in an old government feed mill. Now he can make a log per second. The logs weigh 2.3 kilograms and are smaller than the average sawdust log. It comes in a wrapper which is used to ignite the log, and it burns for 2-3 hours. The log sells for about $3.50 US, and it’s going into several major retail chains across the US. Back To Contents
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