U.S. Navy's Alternative Fuel Test Ship

PORT HUENEME, Calif. – The U.S. Navy successfully concluded its largest demonstration of shipboard alternative fuel use today with the successful arrival of the Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) to Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme at 10:37 a.m. (PST).

The SDTS is a decommissioned Spruance-class destroyer ex-Paul F. Foster (EDD 964) reconfigured to provide the Navy an at-sea, remotely controlled, engineering test and evaluation platform without the risk to personnel or operational assets. The ship received approximately 20,000 gallons of a 50-50 blend of an algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76 from the Defense Fuel Supply Point at Naval Base Point Loma, Nov. 16.






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I bet the Arabs are not to happy about this news.

Meanwhile, the Liberal Party of Canada has released it's proposal for a Canadian Alternative Power Naval Vessel:

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What a great way to clean up the nitrogen and phosphates in the Manitoba seas. Harvesting goo and selling it on the open goo markets.