http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/22/forget-algae-biofuel-navy-jets-could-run-on-toothpicks/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/22/forget-algae-biofuel-navy-jets-could-run-on-toothpicks/#comment-116228 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:34:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36296#comment-116228 Okay, so we are going to pay one company (Cobalt) to start with cellulose and food waste and make butanol, then ship that intermediate product to another company (Albemarle) and pay then to apply another complex process to turn butanol into jet fuel. Honeywell UOP is already under a $1.1M government contract to produce 100 gallons of this alcohol-to-jet fuel ($11,000 a gallon) this year. This is merely the second step in the above process. Add to this price the cost to make alcohol from cellulose (a process that has bankrupted Cello and Gevo and Range Fuels), and we should have an approach that can compete with the $2.30 a gallon the U.S. military is currently paying for conventional jet fuel. Not.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/22/forget-algae-biofuel-navy-jets-could-run-on-toothpicks/#comment-116158 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:02:46 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36296#comment-116158 […] U.S. Navy Warplanes To Test Wood-Based Butonal Fuel [CleanTechnica] […]

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