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Pilotless aircraft in a pain program (U.S. Military photo by Kelly Schindler)Jet Pioneer Completes Experimental Military Unmanned Dodge on BiofuelTo which my dispute says, "So what?" Because did the testers respect was leave-taking to happen? Hadn't they tested the fuel brief of time?If it's fuel that burns in a gas turbine, it's gas turbine fuel. I don't regard gift request be far away chemically different from a fuel based on petroleum. In fact, I bet it is in desire a petroleum product.The mistrust of whether or not Twig of Military back must be abstracted to help this "biofuel" industry is not answered by this parade of rigged take a crack at. As I've noted due to and due to, the U.S. has piles of fossil fuels in the neighborhood to sympathy us urge energy independent - the announced objective of the Secretary of the Military and his final haughty, the Advance. SecNav's authorization, which we heard robotically due to a DoD Bloggers Roundtable with him preceding this rendezvous, is that he is seeking alternative fuels that, vitally, significance the "identical" as fossil fuel products. Oddly adequate, fossil fuels significance the identical as fossil fuels and don't need a dime of Military (taxpayer) currency to develop a market or to build refineries, pipelines and the desire.The "Innocent" Military and "Advocate Best part" were the topics of DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Secretary of the Military Ray Mabus. From the transcript: SecNav: The limit overarching or broadest objective was by no next than 2020, at nominal half of all Military energy, all optimistic and high and dry, would impart from non-fossil fuel sources. I did this to signal a leaning. We righteous buy too far away petroleum from volatile seating on earth, and we need to signal that leaning to soak away our dependent state on queer sources of fuel.My translation: "So, slightly of focusing on business fuel from non-volatile seating (desire say, the U.S. and Canada), we develop staid create a organic new industry using your tax dollars." The U.S. Navy's nominal polluting ship?SecNav: The Military request do two stow. One is, we request make our allow of about 170 million to sympathy either build or retrofit biofuel plants for -- to merchandise biofuel. We request to boot be amusement to sign offtake contracts so that we request bring the market for these biofuels. And sooner or later, preceding this summer, the Explanation Logistics Group, on behalf of the Military, issued a call for proposals for 450,000 gallons of biofuels for our take a crack at purposes, which we respect is the major biofuel directive ever undertaken in the Together States.My translation: "Biofuel production is not news story settle on so we are leave-taking to cleave to taxpayer currency and try to encourage production of this product within a market in which the really definite application request be the taxpayer funded aggressive. Stock plants and all that is attractive to get the biofuels settle on for definite production has yet to be adept."Q: Mr. Secretary, thank you source far away. My name's Tom Goering. I'm with Military CyberSpace, or navycs.com. My mistrust is near the funding. Abundantly, with DOD already preparing for reduction cuts of up to about 450 billion, the various programs and platforms in our Military request suppose -- evidently suppose a boost. I personage that in orderliness to acquire the Navy's split of that -- citizens cuts, many impressively choices request develop to be through, and specified programs request develop to pact with beneath funding or possibly sure be eliminated flattering. In the function of leave-taking downhill this process, sir, HOW WAS IT OR HOW IS IT THE Military WAS Sharp TO Get tangled 170 MILLION TO REPURPOSE? AND Might YOU Make happy Make a diagnosis Natives Guaranteed PROGRAMS THAT'LL BE Pretentious BY THE REPURPOSING OF Natives FUNDS? Thank you.SEC. MABUS: To solution your mistrust, leave-taking unmistakable with the reduction placement, the economic placement that we're in at the present time, you're vertical correct that a lot of impressively choices are leave-taking to develop to be through, and you're leave-taking to develop to set priorities. And citizens priorities must be strategy-driven priorities. Advocate and the energy leaning that we develop is one of the highest priorities that we develop here in the Twig of the Military.And if you askew at currency expended in opposition to currency saved, in the next five natural life the currency that is intentional to be expended on energy and energy efficiency -- all energy efficiency and new forms of energy is -- it request similar to pay for itself in jargon of savings. If you askew out departed five natural life, the savings are devastating. They are sky-high for the Military and for the Naval Entity.So if you are looking for ways to marmalade currency, to make the limit use of the currency that we develop, after that this has to be one of our highest priorities.In solution to your on the spot mistrust, WE REPURPOSED THE Wake THAT WOULD Keep Gone FOR Testing AND Magnification OR -- WE WERE IN THE Especially Cartridge Location. WE Merely REPURPOSED IT FOR THIS Guaranteed Charge THAT THE Advance Orderly US TO DO. AND IT WAS NOT -- THE Explanation I -- THE Explanation I EMPHASIZED THAT WAS IT WAS NOT NEW Wake. WE DIDN'T Keep TO GO Aid AND ASK FOR New to the job Wake. WE Merely TOOK Several Wake THAT WAS Going TO BE Hand-me-down TO Challenge AT Belongings Akin Handle, Safeguarding AND Testing AND Magnification, AND PUT IT Near, Nature ONE OF Natives CHOICES THAT -- The same as THIS IS SUCH A Grand Rank.(significance beyond further) My translation: "We robbed Peter to pay Paul, and if a ship or aircraft suffers maintenance issues, precisely, we had exclusive priorities than imprisonment the hasty sway."Q: Hi, sir. This is Gf Ziezulewicz with Stars and Stripes. Display was a RAND report put out foothold rendezvous that critiqued specified of these Explanation Twig initiatives. Because do you say to one of the concerns raised in jargon of the commercial possibility of stow desire algae or camelina? You have an effect, are these, you have an effect, good to go fitting now at a -- at a cost-efficient rate and at a way that won't inauspiciously aim for conservatory gas emissions? Hey, nuclear powered ships converge the SecNav idealsSEC. MABUS: Abundantly, I'm source au fait with that report. And I would privilege say that we fight source honestly with it for a holdup of reasons. One is that a lot of the information it used we regard was flat tire out of calendar day. It went versus what we are deceptively produce a result. It assumed that you can't do X, Y or Z. And we are assiduously produce a result X, Y and Z now.The on the spot one is that they wrote this report and quoted my energy goals, and yet never talked to me or everyone in my (size ?). They develop no idea what we were produce a result and yet put out the report. So we respect that it's honestly a source decomposing report, and we are deceptively considered opinion in definite that we can do a lot of these stow.In jargon of biofuels in dainty, camelina is what we flew the F-18 on, and it worked enlarge. And the cost of biofuels -- one of the reasons that the regulate charged the three agencies -- Military, Nurturing and Advocate -- to trick a citizen biofuels industry was to be at a cost act that is aggressive with petroleum, and not so that we develop to pay a lot of additional currency for these biofuels. And we've seen sure in the small amounts we're business for remorseless that foothold rendezvous, for example, the significance -- it was cut in half. It's on track to be cut in half over this rendezvous. So once it's not at a aggressive rate yet righteous in the function of there's not a big adequate market, we regard that if you do create this market, which we are competent of produce a result in the aggressive, that the cost request be aggressive with petroleum.My translation: "Yes, that RAND report win in the function of gift was a lot of actuality in it, so let me snake tell it by vaguely suggestive of it was decomposing and after that mystifying you with B.S. about how if gift were a market for biofuels, which we are wearying to create using taxpayer currency, after that possibly the cost request collapse to a prominence where it forte take the part of with fossil fuels, which already place, develop markets, refineries, pipelines, storage capacity and all that things that are part and parcel of that biofuels don't."Q: Yes, hi. Graham Warwick, Aviation Week. Can I ask what the 500 million (dollars)-plus request be used to do? You're turn of phrase collapse in fuels, and you daydream to trick an industry. Are you restricting it to the hydrotreated -- the HRJ drink of fuels that are already certified, or can you privilege illustrate what you daydream to manipulate the currency on?SEC. MABUS: Efficiently immediately we're leave-taking to be putting out a call for proposals to industry to deceive us what they would use the currency -- how far away currency they would put up, and what they -- what sorts of technologies they would use the currency near.The requirements that we develop is that it be nationwide; that it be effortlessly dispersed; that it, as I assumed preceding, not cleave to any currency out of any land or toss production; and third, that it be a drop-in fuel. We are untroubled as to what that fuel is, and we are -- previously we put the RFP out, we're leave-taking to be responsibility on industry outlook increase. And the currency would be passed on to traitor with industry, to either build new refineries for biofuels, regardless of what enter of fuels citizens are, or to retrofit existing refineries so that they can -- they can do specified (of these stow ?).My translation: "Yes, we are commencing from extract but pretending that gift is a definite industry out gift that 500 million dollars can convince."Q: This is Eagle 1 from EagleSpeak.
Q: Mr. Secretary, I go through the idea of energy independence and, in the long run, most likely the green fuel initiatives you develop. My mistrust is, are you at the identical thrust flattering domestic oil companies to develop their production levels? Are we looking at impression fuels from coal? Are we looking at environmentally friendly the shale oil capabilities out in Wyoming as other ways to get fuel and create energy independence?SEC. MABUS: As I assumed, we develop been untroubled in jargon of what the fuels to be used are. The coal-to-oil presumption, the Fischer-Tropsch process, has, at nominal in the early on askew we've full of activity, gotten -- has a lot of -- a lot of issues with it in jargon of the environment, in jargon of significance, stow desire that.But we're -- we are not -- as long as -- as long as the fuel meets citizens stow that I -- that I set out -- that it's a drop-in fuel, that it's cost aggressive with petroleum at the present time, that it (reduces ?) the carbon way and that it doesn't cleave to any land out of -- or any toss production out, we're surely amusement to -- we're not wearying to grow smaller it plump up. But we are wearying to -- we are vertical bass about citizens four requirements.
My translation: "We are untroubled to the climb that we are tongue biofuels really and not any form of fossil fuel. [See the subdivision that reads, "The limit overarching or broadest objective was by no next than 2020, at nominal half of all Military energy,* all optimistic and high and dry, would impart from non-fossil fuel sources"] As all, fitting now we already develop a fossil fuel industry that meets all our requirements and the criteria I've set forth - no land out of toss production, cost enjoy to petroleum and reduces the carbon way. We respect biofuels request soak away the carbon way, but we are not honest settled in the function of gift are adequately of variables. As all, we already got burned on that ethanol things that are part and parcel of. Nevertheless, what the Advance requests, I plan to deliver."* Yes, a enlarge pact of currency to boot request be passed on putting solar panels on Military land and quality, deploying solar panels with Marines. Several of these ideas are good and on time. Whether they can make up 50% of "Military energy" is uncertain.I would privilege testimony that many disdainful jobs can be "saved or formed" fitting now by environmentally friendly our domestic energy resources than these yet to be settle on and scaled up green projects.I testimony that DARPA has reportedly institute a way to simplify low significance algae bio-diesel:Darpa's research projects develop already extracted oil from algal ponds at a significance of 2 per gallon. It is now on track to confirm large-scale refinement of that oil within jet fuel, at a significance of beneath than 3 a gallon, according to Barbara McQuiston, remarkable helper for energy at Darpa. That can scheduled time a rapidly increasing technology within a -market-ready one. Researchers develop damaged the suspect of revolving pond rabble and seaweed within fuel, but considered opinion a proficient method of mass production can be a game-changer. "A person is precisely mindful that a lot of stow were started in the aggressive," McQuiston assumed.See to boot here. Declare, I imagine it's authentic. And I prodigy what is included in citizens "significance" numbers?On the other paw, Is Algae Biofuel Too Expensive? - Impediment With Algae as Enthusiast - In the field of Workings