Watermelon Juice Makes Great Biofuel

Mike writes "Watermelons are more than just a tasty summer snack — researchers at the USDA have determined that the fruit constitutes a promising and economically viable source of biofuel. It turns out that the relatively high concentration of directly fermentable sugars in watermelon juice can be easily converted into ethanol. Rather than grow fields of the fruit for the purpose, the report suggests that farmers capitalize on the 20% of each annual watermelon crop that is left in the field because of surface blemishes or because they are misshapen."

Comments

Just plow then into the ground

[geekoid]

to be used with the next crop.

Converting food land to bio-fuels is a horrible waste of time and money.
There isn't enough land to come close to demand.

State laying industrial solar power in non farming area.
Do it fast, get it done. we can power the nation from that.

Re:As long as we don't claim it to be the solution

[Mr. Slippery]

Corn-based "Ethanol" actually produces more pollution through corn crops than conventional oil.

No, it doesn't. Corn ethanol is a lousy choice for biofuels, influenced more by politics than science, but even it is energy-positive -- you get a reduction in CO2 pollution from it.