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
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)
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.)
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.)
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
To: PROCON
6 posted on
09/03/2011 3:49:46 PM PDT by
pallis
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
To: PROCON
What’s next...a green war?
10 posted on
09/03/2011 3:55:33 PM PDT by
Huskrrrr
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.)
To: PROCON
Interesting, if they’re able to keep them in the air, and the crop really does rotate well with wheat.
To: PROCON
18 posted on
09/03/2011 4:25:59 PM PDT by
Vob
(free radical community organizer)
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20 posted on
09/03/2011 4:35:16 PM PDT by
markomalley
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To: magslinger
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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.)
To: PROCON
“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.)
To: PROCON
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.)
To: PROCON
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.)
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.)
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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