Cricketscoffee Blog

Is Caffeine a performance enhancing drug?   While having a cup or two of coffee before performing in a professional sporting event is not a rules violation. It could be in the future. With all of the health news and effects of Caffeine on a person's health and physical performance appearing in the news. Caffeine could soon join the long list of forbidden chemicals that a professional athlete can have in their system.    Recent tests have rendered results of a reduction of 2 strokes off of your golf game. Just have a couple cups of coffee before the round.  Test results on bowling and Frisbee golf are not in as of this posting.

  With the environment in the news lately. Here is one you didn't see coming. Used coffee grounds are very good at storing Methane.   Methane is a global warming gas many times more potent that carbon dioxide.With Methane having one advantage over Carbon Dioxide. That is Methane can be used as a fuel.   The process to make this work is relative simple with the moist used coffee grounds being heated with potassium hydroxide.   So who cares you may be asking yourself. While It's not likely your local power company will be digging around in your trash ben for your used coffee grounds in order to capture and store their Methane emissions.   Some smaller producers of Methane emissions may have some interest. Many oil wells also produce small amounts of natural gas. The volume of gas is so small that it's uneconomical to lay the needed pipe in order to place this gas into the natural gas lines that heat your home. So this gas is "flared off". It's the flam