C-17 is First Air Force Jet to Cleared to Fly on Biofuel

Defense Tech ^ | 2/11/2011 | Defense Tech

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Well, several years after the Air Force certified the C-17 to fly on coal-based synthetic jet fuel, it’s gone and certified the cargo hauler to fly on biofuel. In fact, the Globemaster III is the first Air Force plane to be cleared to fly using “hydroprocessed blended biofuels known as hydrotreated renewable jet fuels” mixed with standard JP-8 jet gas. This comes just under a year after the Navy cleared the F/A-18EF Super Hornet to fly using biofuel.

This certification is part of an effort to find an alternative fuel source for all Air Force planes that emits fewer greenhouse gasses than JP-8. The service plans to have the entire fleet of aircraft certified to fly on a50-50 mix of biofuel and JP-8 within the next 22 months.

In the last decade, the Air Force certified its fleet to fly using the so called, coal-to-liquids fuels. However, the service abandoned efforts to use coal-based blends operationally after questions arose over how environmentally friendly any fuel based on coal can really be.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Thanks for driving up food prices morons!

[EGPWS]

When our freedoms are in danger, it is a comfort knowing that they are being defended at any cost by environment sensitive means...

Rome is burning again.

[Leisler]

Oil is bio fuel.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I do not like the biofuels but I do like is the FT conversion of coal into jet fuel. The Germans used this process in WWII.

[Leisler]

Puts out rainbow Skittle exhaust.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Too bad we can’t run the fleet on all the hot air produced in Wasthington.

[9422WMR]

If they put splash mixed ethanol in that jet it’s gonna come crashing down.
The ethanol crap they force us to buy for our cars is so inconsistent in the mix percentage it’s unbelievable that any knowledgeable person was involved in the decision.
We have some real dumb asses employed in the EPA.....

[Big Bronson]

For more information, read this:

https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/q_mod_be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153/q_act_downloadpaper/q_obj_b7b1fcc1-f1da-42a7-9183-0605633b8983/display.aspx?rs=enginespage

[The Great RJ]

Nothing new, during WW-II the Germans used synthetic fuels made from coal including aviation fuels for the Luftwaffe.

[twister881]

Exhaust smells like:

[Figment]

The diesel engine was intended to run on coal oil. Can’t see why engines designed for kerosene couldn’t also. Oh, there is that problem with the current administration bankrupting the coal industry

[Figment]

We have some real dumb asses employed in the EPA..

We have nothing but dumbasses employed in the EPA. Thank you Richard Nixon

[sionnsar]

The diesel engine was intended to run on coal oil. Can’t see why engines designed for kerosene couldn’t also.

Run them on whale oil. Totally organic.

[nascarnation]

Run them on whale oil

That stuff made the best automatic transmission fluid ever. When the greenies were able to enforce whale protection, it was a real b!tch to replace it. http://www.lubegard.com/LXE.aspx

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I mentioned that in a pervious post

[Figment]

That’s the ticket.

[sionnsar]

You know, I remember that from some research on whale oil I did for a talk a few years back.