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2010-04-22 Science & Technology
Navy's Green Hornet to Launch on Earth Day
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-04-22 07:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 
Hoo boy, There's at least one error in every single paragraph of that article press release.

Editor!
Posted by Parabellum 2010-04-22 07:41|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/  2010-04-22 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 All these biofuel companies float on an ocean of extracted petroleum products and other fossil fuels. I doubt they use biofuel-derived fertilizer on their fields instead of ammonia made from natural gas.... trucks and tractors probably run drilled diesel.... etc.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-22 09:15||   2010-04-22 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 First flight of the "Flameout Express"
Posted by mojo  2010-04-22 10:48||   2010-04-22 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Although I can see the potential, like the development of synthetic rubber alternatives for WWII, I too wonder about the return on investment (acres per gallons produced, cost of growth and harvest, suseptability of crop to weather). I would hate to think that the strength of the military depends on whether a farmer gets rain.

Unless of course this is science for science sake, or just showbiz. Perhaps it is a product of the Kato Institute and will be armed with only knock-out gas munitions?
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-04-22 11:20||   2010-04-22 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmm. While it *is* a good nitrogen-fixer, and thus a useful crop for rotation with more efficient cash crops, it also seems to be a really good vegetable oil stock, which puts the lie to this "not in competition with food usage" business.

Amusingly enough, it's a flax weed.
Posted by Mitch H.  2010-04-22 13:18|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2010-04-22 13:18|| Front Page Top

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