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US: RAND study puts a spike through plans for biofuels
Source : defpro.com
A recent report by the prestigious RAND Corporation appears to put a spike through the Obama Administration's plans for biofuels. The report focuses specifically on U.S. Navy programs to develop a range of biofuels but has clear implications for the overall policy. A secondary issue raised by the report is the advisability of having the Department of Defense investing scarce S&T dollars in an enterprise that should be left, if it is to be done by government at all, to the Department of Energy. The RAND report is devastating to the Navy's biofuels effort. It concludes that the Navy will receive no direct benefit from its current efforts. In part, this is because biofuels have inherently less energy density than fossil fuels. More significantly, the Navy's effort is focused largely on trying to prove the viability of biofuel generation processes where there are great uncertainties regarding their technical and operational viability. The study observes that "most of the defense department's efforts in alternative fuel development are geared toward proving technical viability rather than establishing a process that yields demonstrably affordable and environmentally sound production. The latter two components are notoriously hard to accomplish."
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7 February 2011 |
Study ::
Biofuels ::
United States & Canada
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