Researchers at the University of Nevada have found that ground coffee is 10-15 percent oil, which is easily extractable and turned into bio-diesel. What’s more, it could be offered for as little as 60p per US gallon – that’s around 16p per litre!

Coffee is in abundant enough supply to provide hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel every year, and the oil can be extracted from leftover grounds – so we shouldn’t find ourselves missing out on our morning coffee for the sake of fuel.

And the find was stumbled across by accident, according to chief researcher Mano Misra, who said: “I had left my coffee out one night, and the next morning, I noticed that there was a kind of oil around the edge of the cup.” Misra then collected used ground coffee from Starbucks and found extracting the oil was easy.

There are over 7.2 million tonnes of coffee produced worldwide each year from which to extract fuel and it’s also more stable than traditional bio-fuel because of coffee’s high antioxidant content. A larger scale pilot scheme is now underway to see how viable coffee could be as a genuine fuel source.”

Interestingly, it’s not the first time coffee’s been used to power machines. It was used in 1932 Brazil to power trains.:

Police are looking for an Australian man who brakes into adult shops, has sex with blow up dolls named Jungle Jane then dumps them in a nearby alley.

“It’s totally bizarre. It’s a real concern that someone like that is out on the street.” said one of the owners an adult sex shop in Cairns, Northern Queensland.

“He has been taking the dolls out the back and blowing them up and using the dolls and leaving them in the alley.” the Cairns Post newspaper was told

Police told the Cairns Post they’d taken DNA samples, fingerprints and pictures of the crime scene.

Update:

Jungle Janes can now rest comfortably on shop shelves since Cairns police arrested a 23 year old man on the 20th’ January 09.

They charged him with four counts each of entering premises with intent and one count of attempted break-in.   He’s been bailed to appear in Cairns Magistrates’ Court next month (February ‘09).

For a look at this doll harassing beast, take a trip to Cairns. com.au and read the full sordid story

An Australian court has issued a descriptive warning about the sexual predators a young driver faces in jail if he does not stop speeding.

The 19-year-old male was told “You’ll find big, ugly, hairy strong men (in jail) who’ve got faces only a mother could love that will pay a lot of attention to you – and your anatomy.” by Magistrate Brian Maloney at Sydney’s Downing Center Court on Monday.

The 19-year old was charged with driving without a license, failing to stop at a police alcohol check point and driving dangerously.

It was his third time before the courts for driving offences, prompting the magistrate’s warning he would be jailed next time.

Maloney barred the teenager from driving until 2013, placed him on a 12-month good behavior bond and ordered him to do 150 hours of community work.

Maloney said any breach of these conditions would see the teenager jailed where he would “shower with the gorillas in the mist down at Long Bay jail.