{"id":44,"date":"2009-06-07T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2017-06-07T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:35:18","slug":"watermelons-the-fuel-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/watermelons-the-fuel-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"WATERMELONS: THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I drove a 1973 Monte Carlo while I was in college. It was a nice car, in good shape, but I felt bad that it only got about eight miles to the gallon. I felt that way for two reasons: First, that it was environmentally unfriendly, and because I was paying more for gas than I was for tuition (or so it seemed).<\/p>\n

I traded it in a long time ago for a more Earth-friendly and reliable mode of transportation, but it turns out, scientists are on the verge of being able to convert any car \u2013 even my old Monte \u2013 into alternative fuel-burning vehicles of the future thanks to\u2026 betcha can\u2019t guess what it is\u2026watermelon!<\/p>\n

According to studies by the Agricultural Research Service<\/a> (ARS) in Oklahoma, the simple sugars found inside a 20-pound watermelon can be converted to yield seven-tenths of a pound of ethanol. We\u2019ve known for a while that corn and sugarcane can be used to produce ethanol, but now watermelon has joined the fray, and that\u2019s good news for the watermelon industry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good because out of the four billion pounds of watermelon grown each year for harvest, about 20 percent (or 800 million pounds) go unharvested and unused because of blemishes or deformities. Now those misshapen and scarred products of nature have a purpose! A purpose some would say is much greater than offering a delicious meal on a lazy Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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