I love watermelons, but there is indeed a lot of waste involved with this wonderful fruit. Many of the melons never even make it to the market, because they does not look pretty enough to display in the grocery's produce section. Instead, they look ugly, so the farmer leaves them for the crows. Scientists estimate that up to 2.5 million gallons of ethanol fuel may be made from the 360,000 tons of watermelon left behind to rot by farmers each year.
Source: MSNBC
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Some local growers wondered whether the waste melons could be turned into ethanol, the clean-burning fuel derived from plant sugars. In a series of new experiments published yesterday in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels, Fish and a team of researchers showed that they can.
What's more, watermelon juice may turn out to be the perfect way to optimize industrial-scale production of ethanol from corn, molasses and sugar cane.
Source: MSNBC
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