Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s

It looks like the military has finally figured out a way to combine Americans' love of french fries with their love of blowing stuff up. The Air Force says all of its 40-plus aircraft models will be able to burn biofuels by 2013, three years ahead of schedule. From the article: "The Army wants 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. The Navy and Marines aim to shift half their energy use from oil, gas and coal by 2020. 'Reliance on fossil fuels is simply too much of a vulnerability for a military organization to have,' U.S. Navy Secretary Raymond Mabus said in an interview. 'We’ve been certifying aircraft on biofuels. We’re doing solar and wind, geothermal, hydrothermal, wave, things like that on our bases.'”

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Re:Biofuels are not "fat"

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Its a religious thing. Geologists and science types can admit that petroleum is millions of year old partially decayed vegetable matter, but that is in direct opposition to some popular "old man in the sky told me to be anti-social towards nonbelievers and btw the earth is only 6000 years old" cults. So a press release has to pretend they are magically chemically different, like the bio fuels have organic life force added to them whereas petroleum oil is just dead, although burnable, rock. Think of organic chemistry back when people believed in "life force" vitalism.