Faster, cheaper, greener — How the Air Force wants to cut fossil fuels out of its jets

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Faster, cheaper, greener — How the Air Force wants to cut fossil fuels out of its jets
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The U.S. Air Force uses two billion gallons of gas each year. Now they’re trying to go green. (via TaskandPurpose and DavidSRoza)

The Air Force hopes E-Jet could push the concept further by allowing airmen to produce the syngas down range and refine it into jet fuel, eliminating the need for vulnerable supply chains.

“It’s a big haystack and we know there is a needle, but the probability of finding that needle will require a lot of effort, a lot of work,” Gore explained.that it would take 13,000 cubic meters of air to make just one gallon of jet fuel, and about 100 million cubic meters of air to fill up the tank of a C-130 Hercules transport plane.

Even the Air Force admitted there were questions left to answer about E-Jet, particularly how to power the process in remote areas. How Twelve and the Air Force hope to tackle those challenges is unclear, as neither organization was able to comment by deadline. But Twelve’s technology has shown promise in the past.

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