US Air Force Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:20:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 U.S. Air Force Considers Wind Power for Remote Combat Training https://www.greenoptimistic.com/u-s-air-force-considers-wind-power-remote-combat-training-20131002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/u-s-air-force-considers-wind-power-remote-combat-training-20131002/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:20:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42097 The US Air Force is currently rethinking its fuel consumption. The Air Force has monitoring stations in remote parts of Alaska where they are monitoring wind turbines. For these monitoring stations they perform air fuel drops during September and March. March can be particularly hazardous for pilots due to extreme weather conditions. To decrease the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/u-s-air-force-considers-wind-power-remote-combat-training-20131002/feed/ 0 42097 NASA and U.S. Air Force Testing Recycled Chicken-Fat Fuel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chicken-fat-jet-fuel-20110402/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chicken-fat-jet-fuel-20110402/#respond Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:57:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17756 It is not sure how the idea came about, but it is official: the US Air Force and even NASA are currently undergoing tests to see if recycled chicken fat could replace jet fuel.

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