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Firm develops jet fuel made entirely from human poo
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Posted on 12/29/2023 4:56:24 PM PST by algore

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To: Nateman

the question is cost.


21 posted on 12/29/2023 5:56:58 PM PST by ckilmer (ui)
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To: algore

They should skip a step and simply place large orders at Taco Bell.


22 posted on 12/29/2023 6:04:55 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: algore

If this is a viable and profitable new application of technology, then good. If this is first some virtue signaling about “carbon footprint” garbage, then it will rightly fail.


23 posted on 12/29/2023 6:22:22 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: algore

Damn, airports already smell bad enough from the current jet fuel.


24 posted on 12/29/2023 6:30:31 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: algore

Does it take much energy to turn the waste into kerosene?


25 posted on 12/29/2023 7:08:46 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sensesa to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: algore

The Airline Slogan is “Go while you go”


26 posted on 12/29/2023 7:19:42 PM PST by Bob434
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To: I-ambush

Talk about a certain type of show!


27 posted on 12/29/2023 7:24:55 PM PST by xp38
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To: algore

Dare I ask what the exhaust smells like?


28 posted on 12/29/2023 7:54:04 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (I don't use preferred pronouns, just as I don't talk to a schizophrenic's imaginary friends.)
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To: lee martell

Tell them he really knows his sh!t.


29 posted on 12/29/2023 7:55:26 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (I don't use preferred pronouns, just as I don't talk to a schizophrenic's imaginary friends.)
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To: Bob434

Replace all the economy class seats with commodes, replace the airline food with Taco Bell, and we can have the first self-fueling airplane!


30 posted on 12/29/2023 7:58:11 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (I don't use preferred pronouns, just as I don't talk to a schizophrenic's imaginary friends.)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

That should take the curl out of their hair!


31 posted on 12/29/2023 8:00:22 PM PST by lee martell
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To: algore

Hello, this is your captain speaking, we are fogged in and will have to divert to LAX but we are running short on fuel. Would rows 1-15 please make your way to the lavatory.


32 posted on 12/29/2023 8:00:30 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Clay Moore

LAXitive.


33 posted on 12/29/2023 8:07:02 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: algore

SCAT Airlines in Kazakhstan.




34 posted on 12/29/2023 8:10:23 PM PST by Songcraft ( )
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To: algore
"Chemists at a lab in Gloucestershire have turned the waste into kerosene."

Gotta be the stuff those Limey's eat. It's probably the stuff that makes them talk so funny.

Fart GIF

35 posted on 12/29/2023 9:26:54 PM PST by guest7
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To: algore

jet poopulsion?


36 posted on 12/29/2023 9:40:43 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

Lol- serve nothing but prune juice to drink


37 posted on 12/30/2023 5:56:27 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Hiddigeigei

I’m thinking it must. I can see trying to collect the methane but turning it into jet fuel seems like a stretch.


38 posted on 12/30/2023 11:40:36 AM PST by scrabblehack
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