Air Force Committing Lots of Land For Fuel Developers

The Air Force is doing what it can to pave the way for environmentally superior products that are "home grown". They have completed much testing and are providing substantial land and forward contracts to get developers to take part.

clipped from eyeball-series.org clipped from www.flightglobal.com USAF to provide facilities for private synthetic fuel development Commercial synthetic fuel production and research into reducing the carbon dioxide output of the synthesis process could take place at the US Air Force's Malmstrom AFB in Montana under the USAF's Enhanced Use Lease programme. Work at Malmstrom AFB could include carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies to solve synthetic fuel's CO2 problem. Carbon capture could involve injecting the waste CO2 into the ground for storage. "If the air force is contributing to that research and can liquefy coal and capture the greenhouse gasses and store those safely underground that would be a big boon for [coal-to-liquid] technology," says the US Senate's committee on energy and natural resources. Meanwhile, the USAF continues its drive to certificate its entire fleet to use synthetic fuel by 2011. A Boeing B-1 bomber flew with synthetic fuel on 19 March.