DOE Explores A New Source For SAF Feedstock

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Skeptics maintain that sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is an idea founded on – bovine excrement. Now the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed a technology that might prove them right. But not in the way they think.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/the-doe-believes-dairy-farms-waste-water-could-lead-to-saf-cost-savings
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I already want a sticker for my engine cowling - “This aircraft runs on cow poop”. :smiley:

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Further proof that the government runs on BS.

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I wonder what the exhaust smells like. French fries I could tolerate, but this?

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Of course you CAN make high octane liquid aviation fuel from waste water, we’ve had those equations for over a hundred years. They have not “developed” it. We don’t do it because you’ll need 80 rail cars of waste for every pint of product.

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