US navy inspects Australian biofuel plantUS navy warships could one day be running on biofuel technology developed by Queensland researchers. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) biofuel researchers have given US navy officials a tour of their pilot plant in Mackay where biomass is converted into transport fuels.QUT's Professor Sagadevan Mundree said the US navy's director for operational energy, Chris Tindal, has flown to Queensland to learn more about the technology's progress. "QUT is the only institution in Australia with the capability of demonstrating a diverse range of waste to biofuel technologies at the pilot scale," Prof Mundree said. He said the US navy wants a "Great Green Fleet" of warships running on biofuels by 2016, and by 2020 it plans to run half of its entire fleet on alternative fuels. It would require 80,000 barrels of biofuel by 2016, Prof Mundree said. He said the pilot plant has been operating for more than 14 months and researchers there are already working with a number of Australian and international industry partners to develop and demonstrate technologies that turn agricultural waste, such as bagasse from sugarcane, into biofuels. Source: 9 News
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