The Pentagon's hunt for an alternative to petroleum has turned a
lowly weed and animal fat into something indistinguishable from jet
fuel, and now the military is trying to kick-start a new biofuel
industry."To flip the line from Field of Dreams, if the Navy comes, they will build it," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said in a recent speech.
The Air Force and the Navy have been busy testing their aircraft — everything from fighter jets to unmanned spy planes — on jet biofuel. Together with the Departments of Energy and Agriculture, the Navy has launched a project to invest up to half a billion dollars in biofuel refineries.
Mabus says he is committed to getting 50 percent of the Navy's fuel for aircraft and surface ships from renewable sources by 2020 because dependence on foreign oil makes the U.S. military vulnerable.
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http://www.npr.org/2011/09/26/140702387/air-force-and-navy-turn-to-bio-fuels
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