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With the proper application of coffee and beer (2 out of my 3 favorite beverages, the other being whiskey) it seems that there are few world problems that we can't fix. Coffee can fuel your car and beer can fuel your car. Coffee grounds can replace printer ink, beer can be used as fish food. No joke, Colorado's New Belgium Brewery has teamed up with a company called the Oberon FMR (fish meal replacement), founded by none other than two beer-loving grad students, to share resources.

After pouring beer in their fish tanks and observing their behavior -- just kidding, I'm sure they did formal research -- the two founders of Oberon discovered that fish love beer. Well, it's not beer exactly, it's the thick brown dregs that occur as a byproduct of brewing -- like the stuff Sierra Nevada is using to make ethanol. An operation the size of New Belgium's produces a pretty healthy level of the sludge, about 40,000-50,000lbs a day. Oberon believes that it can convert 30,000-35,000lbs of the stuff into bacterial protein. Being that it's a somewhat unconventional method, it will be tested by the University of Idaho. If successful, Oberon may have found an abundant new source of food for the world's struggling fisheries.

[via Treehugger]