Photograph by Evan Zhang, My ShotWatermelons are delicious and great fuel for kids on a hot summer afternoon. But they also might make great fuel for cars!
Wayne Fish, a chemist with the Agricultural Research Service in Lane, Oklahoma, and his team were working on a project using watermelons when they realized that watermelon juice could be used to make ethanol, which can be used as fuel for cars. Only about four of every five watermelons grown are sold to people for food. The remaining fifth of the watermelons go to waste. That could be a lot of fuel!
Read more about this green (or is it red?) fuel on National Geographic News.
Put your own words into a photo of a woman eating watermelon on National Geographic Kids.
That's interesting.
I think it would be so cool if cars ran on watermelon juice instead of gas.
The next time I get some watermelons, I'm going to
save the juice for fuel for the car if it works!*
If cars did run on watermelons, then the air would smell a lot better
yes, what pookiemonsta said! haha
I wonder what other fruits could be used as fuel?
I love watermelon!!! It's the best fruit ever! To use watermelon for gas? Only the stuff to be wasted. I want to eat lots of it!!! :)
:)