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• Concerns Spread over Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas
  Jul 14, 2010 - Joel Kirkland - scientificamerican.com
  
  The extent to which utilities will burn natural gas to slash carbon dioxide emissions tied to global warming is a national issue. But on the ground, where it's being produced, the issues become very local
  
  
• British Airways To Develop Waste-to-Fuel Facility
  Feb 16, 2010 - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  
  British Airways and the Solena Group plan to develop Europe's first bio-based jet-fuel production facility. British Airways plans to use the fuel to power part of its fleet starting in 2014.
  
  
• Farming Fuel in Middle Eastern Salt Marshes
  Jan 19, 2010 - Jenny Mandel - Scientific American
  
  A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will unite Boeing, Honeywell and others in search of a system to produce fuel and other useful products from biomass and seawater.
  
  
• Look, It's the Green Hornet! Navy to Test Biofuels in F-18 Fighter Jet
  Aug 18, 2009 - Matthew McDermott - Alternative Energy
  
  By this time next year, the US Navy will have commenced biofuel tests on one of its F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets. A request for proposal for some 40,000 gallons of JP-5 aviation biofuel was just issued. No word on what feedstocks will be used in that fuel yet, other than the stipulation that no food crops are used:
  
  

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