The energy needed to extract sand and gravel from the ground, the logistics around moving heavy bulk material, crushing and preparing it, uses a staggeringly large amount of fuel. This is potentially up to 30% saving on that energy use.
The energy needed to extract sand and gravel from the ground, the logistics around moving heavy bulk material, crushing and preparing it, uses a staggeringly large amount of fuel. This is potentially up to 30% saving on that energy use.
Why do you think lifting and transporting 1t of grounds takes less energy than lifting and transporting 1t of sand?
Only sand is already conveniently placed in bulk and very dense and does not require pyrolysis to be usable, etc. Almost every process related to sand I can imagine (I am not an expert at making cement in volume) will cost more for coffee grounds.
so many of these ideas seem to hand wave over “we’ll need to implement a whole new waste stream worldwide. don’t mind that we can hardly manage >1 stream as it is”