Grass to Gas - Pretty interesting.
 

Hope you can see this. It's pretty fascinating!

http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/2009/september/fuel0909.html?WT.mc_id=090821epilot&WT.mc_sect=gan

OMG- Evan that's really cool. I wonder if this stuff takes off (literally) there might be a chance to keep the older birds in the air and not destined for the bone yard due to fuel consumption.

Wasn't their a Disney movie some years ago that explored the same idea :rolleyes:

That is pretty cool. I know one of the growers we buy wetlands and conservation grasses from has been playing around with millet and switchgrass production for fuels.

Or Waterworld. ;)

If an alternative airline fuel can be found, it would have a massive impact across the economy.

I think the solution here is going to be algae based bio-diesel. There have already been some tests done using bio in jets. The next step is perfecting large scale production from algae.

What a good looking plane.

Very cool!

I'll be excited when something like this can be produced cheaply on a mass scale and be competitive with oil. Until then, it's just another idea.

Yea, I've seen and/or heard of a number of promising "alternative" fuels. Haven't seen any come even close to commercial, even limited, production.

Except Ethanol, which except as it's use as a gas additive, was never another but more proof we have a first class government:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: