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sixto · #1 07-15-2012, 07:20 PM

Changing Cities: Ending Hawaii's Oil Addiction - Yahoo! News

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The Navy purchased 450,000 gallons of biofuels for $12 million in 2011 for the maneuver - $26 per gallon.

Might be cheaper to run the fleet on Mobil1.

Sixto
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Pooka · #2 07-15-2012, 08:29 PM

Maybe, but right now a lot of very smart people are betting that it is not.

www.algalbiomass.org

There are a lot more companies behind this than just the U.S. Navy.

The Brookings Institute has recently made a big break through on this, so despite the best efforts of some in our government science is not yet dead here in the US.

aklim · #3 07-15-2012, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Pooka

Maybe, but right now a lot of very smart people are betting that it is not.

There are a lot more companies behind this than just the U.S. Navy.

The Brookings Institute has recently made a big break through on this, so despite the best efforts of some in our government science is not yet dead here in the US.

Betting it is not what? Cheaper to run on Mobil1? It is more expensive than running it on Mobil1. It IS $26 per gallon and 7 times more expensive than conventional fuel. As to the future, it might or might not be. Right now, it IS more expensive, no "ifs, ands or buts".

Perhaps Solyndra didn't teach them the lesson that govt has no business in this sort of thing. Do your own job and let the winners and losers sort themselves out.

Nor should science be dead. Just because they didn't jump on a certain bandwagon doesn't mean they are responsible for killing it. Said bandwagon should live or die on it's own merits and NOT one way or the other via govt meddling.