Sentences with phrase «by synfuel»
Both the Air Force in December and Airbus earlier this month completed flights powered by synfuel — liquid jet fuel made from coal or natural gas.
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Still, the combination of factors involved: energy security, diversity of supply and the environment may sustain commercial aviation's interest, though its overall goals are smaller — certifying synfuel blends next year, full synfuels by 2010 and biofuels in 2013.
In addition to flying the C - 17 across the country — a plane powered by the same Pratt and Whitney F117 - 100 engine employed on commercial Boeing 757s — the Air Force in August certified its still flying 1950s - era B - 52 bombers to burn synfuel.
At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.