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US Navy Green Fleet fills up with Italian-made biofuel

US Navy Green Fleet fills up with Italian-made biofuel

US Navy Green Fleet refuelled off Italy’s southern coast By Steve Scherer ABOARD THE USS MASON, June 16 (Reuters) – A U.S. warship took its first delivery of Italian-made biofuel on Thursday as part of the Navy’s programme to use more alternative energy. The USS Mason was refuelled alongside an Italian vessel, the Andrea Doria, […]

Hawaii Air Force unit getting own power grid that uses trash

Hawaii Air Force unit getting own power grid that uses trash

Hawaii Air Force unit microgrid could break off from, operate independently from utility JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii _ The Air Force unit that defends Hawaii skies will get experimental energy technology that uses trash to generate power and relies on its own small electrical grid, a system intended to keep the unit operating if […]

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