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You’re great at finding all of the techie stuff regarding military weaponry and developments. Been reading your posts for several years.
Wasn’t there an article or two a year or so ago about the USAF building facilities (perhaps on previously closed bases) for producing synthetic fuels and that it would significantly reduce the cost of fuel for aircraft?
Early in the morning here, so I may not have that right, but I remember reading about the start-up of the process.
IMO, it’s folley to use food crops for fuel. Just hurts the overall economy by raising consumer prices due to less supply. Biofuel hasn’t been shown to produce more or equal power outage to carbon based fuels and it costs more per gallon to produce.
The idiots in charge of this movement are like characters from the tale of Alice in Wonderland.
Syntroleum, a publicly traded US company has produced over 400,000 gallons of diesel and jet fuel from the Fischer–Tropsch process using natural gas and coal at its demonstration plant near Tulsa, Oklahoma. They produce for the USAF.
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“Wasn’t there an article or two a year or so ago about the USAF building facilities (perhaps on previously closed bases) for producing synthetic fuels and that it would significantly reduce the cost of fuel for aircraft?”
They are constructing a building at WPAFB in Dayton, Ohio to do just this, though the amount of fuel to be produced is more on the research level than even a partial supply for USAF operations.