{"id":1115,"date":"2009-06-17T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-06-17T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T05:26:00","slug":"navy-tests-alternative-fuels-for-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/navy-tests-alternative-fuels-for-jets.html","title":{"rendered":"Navy Tests Alternative Fuels for Jets and Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>A team of chemists at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naval_Air_Station_Patuxent_River\">Naval Air Station Patuxent River<\/a>, Md., is testing alternative fuel formulas using items such as algae, weeds, animal fats and liquefied coal.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal is to create an alternative version of today\u2019s jet fuel, known as JP-5, which could be easily transported and burned by today\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Kamin, the fuels lead for the Navy Energy Coordination Office, said, The Navy is working with General Electric, which manufactures the Super Hornet\u2019s F414 engine, to test prospective fuels. Super Hornet-maker Boeing also is helping to test whether the fuels are compatible with the plane\u2019s existing parts.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy also is working to develop alternative fuel for ships, but officials have not decided what type of ship will be the first to test it, Kamin said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2009\/06\/navy_alternative_jet_fuel_061609\/\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. A team of chemists at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., is testing alternative fuel formulas using items such as algae, weeds, animal fats and liquefied coal. Their goal is to create an alternative version of today\u2019s jet fuel, known as JP-5, which could be easily transported and burned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel","category-algae-biodiesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}