Coffee Pellets?

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If something new you always pay more
if others follow the price will come down
 
Hard telling the future. Once there becomes a market for spent grounds, the price might go up. Kinda like with collecting used fryer oil to make biodiesel. It’s great until everyone starts doing it.

I looked up coffee pellets. I see lots of them for sale already, but for pellet grills. Makes sense, being food grade. And like grill pellets, they’re super expensive. Never saw any coffee pellets for downgraded for stove use, with price lowered accordingly.
 
Yes, I was imprecise.
My main concern would be whether that would make it hard for a "do it at home" log-maker as compared to a pellet press.
I wonder if you could fit the parts to a log splitter. Would 22 tons be enough force? I'm not good at this kind of math.
 
I wonder if you could fit the parts to a log splitter. Would 22 tons be enough force? I'm not good at this kind of math.
I don't know anything about making pellets, so I don't know the pressure needed. Commercial machines are not simple cylinders, so calculating the pressure is a tad harder if one doesn't know the inside of the drums.

After that it would be a simple scaling by surface area as pressure is force per (surface) are.
 
I wonder if you could fit the parts to a log splitter. Would 22 tons be enough force? I'm not good at this kind of math.
So that’s 3000 psi “ideally” for a 3” logon one face. Then spread that out of all the sides. I’m guessing that’s not enough. But I will say my 14 bar espresso machine can make a kinda dense puck a lot of variables.


100 tons???
 
I wonder if the exhaust is acidic and requiring special venting (like corn).