Washington – Motorists angered by rising gas prices might want to stock up on watermelons.
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A study from the Biotechnology for Biofuels journal revealed that watermelon juice could be converted into ethanol, a clean-burning fuel from plant sugars.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that leftover watermelons from a typical U.S. harvest could be converted to up to 9.4 million liters (2.5 million gallons) annually of clean ethanol fuel, which could be used to power cars, trucks, and even airplanes.
There is a long-standing tradition to bang on a watermelon to attest to its ripeness. However, should unsuspecting consumers find the watermelon rotten when getting home, they needn’t get too upset. The rotten fruit could still be converted to an alternative energy source.
Also watermelon fields could produce ethanol on the spot for use in farm equipment or in other applications that don’t require long-distance transport.
In fact, watermelon ethanol could be produced anywhere in the United States.
Watermelons are grown from Alaska to Florida and Hawaii to Maine. Those perks of widespread watermelon production are all very positive.
I cant wait to open my windoe on the thruway and smell..watermellon flavor!
“watermelon juice “could” be converted into ethanol”. but will it?
Ethanols consume as much energy as they produce. Thus they loose 100% on a per cost basis.
Oil costs very little to bring to market and the US has MORE than Saudi Arabia but environmentalists and Socialists will not let US produce.
This story is the pits.
Here we go $1.50 -$2.00 a pound of watermelon
So now we will have to pay extra for watermelon as a “deposit” on the “bottle” then save the leftover watermelon-peels and rotten fruit parts, save it to return for a refund to the store, so that it can be recycled in to ethanol, or store the rotten watermelon in you kitchen recycling bags for the once a week recycling pickup by the NYC garbage pickup.
but how expensive it it???
The arabs are probably thinking about the dumb Americans wanting to use , corn, watermelons, hod dogs, green grass, and lots of other junk for us to get from the coty to the country!
There is technology out there discovered years ago , that cars can run only on water, yes, water. But, it has been suppressed by those that control the oil market, naturally. Don’t start planting watermelons.