` The coffee-growing business in Honduras is one of many rural-based industry sectors that require electricity. The Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) has partnered with the U.S. government and the Dutch-based development agency SNV to reuse the pulp and mucilage by products of coffee beans as biofuel. The project also assists lessen negative effects of coffee production on the atmosphere. For London-based entrepreneur Arthur Kay, using coffee grounds are the distinct waste—they are an important reserve and an untapped reservoir of energy. The company he established, bio-bean, is collaborating with coffee shops and coffee makers to transform their natural by-product into a spectrum of advanced biofuels on an industrial scale. Arthur Kay trained in architecture at University College London. While developing a blueprint for a coffee roaster he saw the potential in turning the business' waste into energy. Given...
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