Tea dregs can substitute for coke.
Publication: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
Date: Monday, September 1 2008
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OSAKA -- A research group from Kinki University, in Osaka, Japan has announced that fuel created from used tea leaves can substitute for coke during iron manufacturing and the casting of iron parts.
Since this new type of fuel is derived from plant matter, burning it results in no net increase of carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, the fuel burns at such a high temperature that iron melts faster in the furnace than with coke. The university group, which conducted experiments in actual furnaces, calculates that fuel using tea leaves can substitute for around 11% of the coke used in furnaces.
makes me think...this would only work in the UK...those Tea Drinking bastards ^_^
I thought at first it was that other type of coke, lol.
