Power your car... with watermelons?


	Power your car... with watermelons?

chestnut501

5-29-2009 9:28 AM

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science, energy, green, agriculture, biofuels, ethanol

chestnut501 says:

80 million watermelons are left to rot each year. Now there's a way to turn them into ethanol.

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5-29-2009 2:15 PM

cosmic_kitten1

awesome.

5-30-2009 4:49 AM

ava10

wow!! that's a very good use of watermelons, apart from beating the heat of course!!

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