Coffee, it is taken for granted so easily, all you have to do is go to your local coffee shop ask for your favorite espresso based drink and a few minutes later you have a steaming cup of happiness! However you like your cup, there are a few people who know that from harvesting the coffee berries to you holding the hot beverage in your hand takes over 2000 hours or labor, processing, transporting, packaging, unpacking, roasting grinding and finally drinking. It will take a thousand lifetimes to optimize all of the processes mentioned above, but roasting is the part I believe is the one that can be made a lot more efficient and environmentally friendly. Lots of research has been done on the taste chemistry of coffee, but what about the smoke coming out at the exhaust? Why would anyone care about it? Firstly, as always, we have one planet and we need to protect it, or at least try our best. Secondly, energy costs money, an a roaster is a energy consuming monster because it w...