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By 2016, the Navy plans to deploy the Great Green Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike group powered entirely by non-fossil fuels, Mabus has said.

Hmm, hasn't the Navy had nuclear powered ships for decades?

1 posted on 09/03/2011 3:41:56 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

I hope they have tested that stuff. We know what ethanol does to car and boat engines and its not good.


2 posted on 09/03/2011 3:45:15 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: PROCON

It took a while but the old 60s hippies have won.


3 posted on 09/03/2011 3:45:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Coming November 2012 - The End of an Error.)
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To: PROCON

so they finally got those solar panels to work on jets.


4 posted on 09/03/2011 3:48:14 PM PDT by grandpa jones (Obama must be exhausted, having to tote that giant brain of his around all the time.)
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To: PROCON

Wind and sun energy have taught us that other sources are suspect.

I would like to know how the biofuel compares in cost of production and per gallon compared to the regular fuel.


5 posted on 09/03/2011 3:48:41 PM PDT by lurk
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To: PROCON

Ridiculous...


6 posted on 09/03/2011 3:49:46 PM PDT by pallis
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To: PROCON

What happens after one of the planes blows a big black smoky fart and flames out?


8 posted on 09/03/2011 3:52:11 PM PDT by Octar
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To: PROCON

What’s next...a green war?


10 posted on 09/03/2011 3:55:33 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: PROCON

I’m tired of hearing about the Green hornets already...


12 posted on 09/03/2011 3:57:04 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (It's 3 AM. Let me sleep on it. I'll get back to you in 16 hours.)
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To: PROCON

Interesting, if they’re able to keep them in the air, and the crop really does rotate well with wheat.


17 posted on 09/03/2011 4:22:38 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: PROCON

http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2010/10/08/us-navy-pays-big-bucks-for-biofuels/';

vob


18 posted on 09/03/2011 4:25:59 PM PDT by Vob (free radical community organizer)
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ping


20 posted on 09/03/2011 4:35:16 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: magslinger

ping


21 posted on 09/03/2011 4:39:02 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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24 posted on 09/03/2011 5:23:28 PM PDT by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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“By 2016, the Navy plans to deploy the Great Green Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike group powered entirely by non-fossil fuels, Mabus has said.”

and at only four times the cost to taxpayers.


25 posted on 09/03/2011 5:45:22 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Time to move forward not to the center.)
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Aaaahh that is so Obama of those guys,how about NOW we call them the Green Angeles, Clue we have lots of Petrolatum just a shiftless bastard stole into the oval office that wants us to use donkey carts.


27 posted on 09/03/2011 6:23:41 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Carnival commie side show, started November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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Sustainable Oils says camelina can also reduce carbon emissions by 80% over jet fuel.

Sounds like BS to me. So what element are they burning instead of carbon?

29 posted on 09/04/2011 5:47:30 AM PDT by CPOSharky (The only thing straight, white, Christian males get is the blame for everything.)
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To: PROCON

“Blue Angels to fly on biofuels “

Why?


30 posted on 09/04/2011 6:03:39 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: PROCON

I think this should be flight tested in Air Force One next time Duh Won decides to go junketing abroad.


31 posted on 09/04/2011 7:19:48 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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