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Ugly watermelons = ethanol opportunity

America, your apparent hatred for disfigured fruit means we may have a big, untapped biomass source to make ethanol. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Oklahoma has been testing ways to make the simple sugars found in watermelons into ethanol, and the USDA is now reporting some success on that front. Using watermelons to make ethanol is certainly nothing new. The National Watermelon Association began working with the USDA in 2006 to see if the 700-800 million pounds of blemished melons (and late-season melons that are not worth it for big ... Read more →

USDA gets Chevy Equinox fuel cell vehicle for Project Highway test Sebastian Blanco

Even with all of GM's problems, the big Project Driveway endeavor continues. The latest addition to the ranks hydrogen-fueled Equinox test vehicle drivers is the USDA, which took delivery of an ...

Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - DOE and USDA discuss bioenergy Sebastian Blanco

Representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy and the USDA were present at the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol conference in Chicago last week and put the national government's biofuel efforts into ...

The 2 Million Mile Haul: Decker embarks on ambitious biodiesel study Derrick Y. Noh

Dale T. Decker, industry and government relations director for Decker Truck Line Inc., has got a new pet project: testing the potential of biodiesel. Now when a company states it's going to conduct ...

World to suffer corn shortage as ethanol demand increases Joel Arellano

The Department of Agriculture predicts that the U.S., which exports 45-50 million tons of corn yearly, will instead convert 50 million tons to ethanol next year. Last year alone the country exported ...


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