{"id":543345,"date":"2010-04-26T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2010-04-26T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:37:14","slug":"u-s-navy-goes-all-supersonic-on-camelina-biofuel-with-%e2%80%9cgreen-hornet%e2%80%9d-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543345","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Goes All Supersonic on Camelina Biofuel with \u201cGreen Hornet\u201d Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7235\" href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/26\/u-s-navy-goes-all-supersonic-on-camelina-biofuel-with-green-hornet-jet\/us-navy-green-hornet-fighter-jet-uses-camelina-biofuel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7235\" title=\"US Navy Green Hornet fighter jet uses camelina biofuel\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/US-Navy-Green-Hornet-fighter-jet-uses-camelina-biofuel.jpg\" alt=\"The US Navy Green Hornet fighter jet hit supersonic speeds on an Earth Day test flight using a 50-50 camelina biofuel blend\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a biofuel refined from a scruffy little weedlike plant called <a title=\"u.s. navy press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/search\/display.asp?story_id=52768\" >camelina can hit supersonic speeds in a Navy fighter jet<\/a>, imagine what it can do in your car. That&#8217;s the idea driving <a title=\"Sustainable Oils website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.susoils.com\/\" >Sustainable Oils<\/a>, which has been working on high performance aviation biofuel from camelina for about five years. Last fall the company started delivering the first of an initial 40,000 gallon consignment for <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/09\/13\/us-navy-super-hornet-has-camelina-biofuel-in-its-sights\/\" >the Navy to test camelina biofuel <\/a>on a bench mounted Super Hornet F414 engine.<\/p>\n<p>This year on April 22nd, the U.S. Navy put an F\/A-18 Super Hornet in flight using a 50-50 blend of conventional jet and camelina biofuel. Dubbed the Green Hornet in honor of Earth Day, the aircraft is (according to the Navy) the first to reach supersonic speeds using a 50-50 biofuel blend. The Navy might not claim sole ownership of that mark for long: <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/31\/u-s-air-force-pumps-up-a-10c-thunderbolt-ii-with-camelina-biofuel\/\" >the U.S. Air Force is also testing camelina biofuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/26\/u-s-navy-goes-all-supersonic-on-camelina-biofuel-with-green-hornet-jet\/#more-7234\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a biofuel refined from a scruffy little weedlike plant called camelina can hit supersonic speeds in a Navy fighter jet, imagine what it can do in your car. That&#8217;s the idea driving Sustainable Oils, which has been working on high performance aviation biofuel from camelina for about five years. Last fall the company started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}