US Navy to test biofuel for military aircraft

Biofuels have gotten a major boost from the US Navy's announcement that it will test them in high-performance fighter aircraft. It has asked for 40,000 gal. of JP-5 jet fuel derived from bio-based feedstocks as long as they are not derived from crops used for human consumption.

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