{"id":3686,"date":"2011-12-12T04:19:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2011-12-12T04:20:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:20:38","slug":"navy-vehicle-achieves-fastest-speed-with-algae-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/navy-vehicle-achieves-fastest-speed-with-algae-fuels.html","title":{"rendered":"Navy Vehicle Achieves the Fastest Speed with Algae Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy\u2019s final alternative fuel demonstration for this year is a great success with the algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76 blend in a landing craft air cushion (LCAC) transport vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The test also marked the fastest speed achieved to date by a U.S. Navy surface craft using alternative fuel blends, as LCAC 91 reached 50 knots. The fastest speed demonstrated on the 50\/50 algal blend in previous tests was 44.5 knots by the Riverine Command Boat (experimental) (RCB-X) in October 2010 at Naval Base Norfolk, Virginia. With this the Navy has shown that they can achieve more than 50 knots on the water and Mach 1.7 in the air &#8211; all on biofuel blends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/navy-news\/navy-hits-fastest-lcac-speed-on-algal-fuel-blend.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy\u2019s final alternative fuel demonstration for this year is a great success with the algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76 blend in a landing craft air cushion (LCAC) transport vehicle. The test also marked the fastest speed achieved to date by a U.S. Navy surface craft using alternative fuel blends, as LCAC 91 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[125,388,366],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel-usa","tag-algae-fuels","tag-fastest-speed","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}