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WOW IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER - .......I uncovered this story on the net ...it looks like the largest bio fuel maritime study mentioned in one of the articles out there is / was possibly with THE NAVY !!! Scott Johnson of GENX is quoted in the story !

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=navy-investigates-biofuels-to-power-ships-airplanes


“Particularly, the Navy is trying to be meticulous about the sources of its alternative fuels, mandating those that do not compete with food, like ethanol from corn does. Algae, although used in the nutraceutical industry, is not considered a food crop and camelina can be used as a rotation crop with wheat. "What we're doing is giving [the farmer] an economic alternative to having the ground sit fallow," says

Scott Johnson, president and general manager of Sustainable Oils, the camelina biofuel supplier.

Sustainable Oils, which also breeds the camelina seeds it then contracts with the farmer to grow, planted about 8,000 acres this year, the bulk in Montana, which should yield roughly 400,000 gallons of the unrefined oil, Johnson says. That camelina oil was then trucked to a pilot refinery run by UOP, LLC, in Bayport, Tex., which turned it into the jet biofuel or other petroleum-based product required. The first jet biofuel will be delivered on September 15 and a UOP-sponsored assessment shows that camelina jet biofuel reduces carbon emissions by 80 percent compared with conventional kerosene.

The U.S. government will pay $2.7 million for the 40,000 gallons of jet biofuel from camelina, or $67.50 per gallon, although that price includes some research and development, DESC cautions. "The Navy is asking for quantities that are not commercial quantities," Johnson explains. "So the process involved is a batch process and some of the costs that are involved are very expensive to set up."

The company also sells the meal left over after crushing the camelina oil seeds as a U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved feed for broiler chickens. "We expect to grow close to 50,000 acres in Montana next year," Johnson says, as well as add more approved uses of the leftover meal.”
Thanks, John