It's obviously a PAINTING of an aircraft carrierProve it! I for one believe our leader cares so little about our military he would actually turn a carrier into a golf course because he would rather be golfing. He's already reduce the efficiency of our naval group and caused their operational costs to go sky high by requiring they use green energy fuels. Why not turn a carrier into a golf course?
WASHINGTON — When the U.S. Navy sailed an imposing fleet near Hawaii that was powered in part by algae and used cooking grease, environmentalists weren't the only ones who were thrilled..Guess who the San Francisco company Solazyme is owned by? Who do you think the owners donate large sums of money to? So the Navy was forced to pay them $400.00 a gallon for $3.00 a gallon fuel to get their business started and liberals have no problem with it?
Executives at bioenergy startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and elsewhere — and the venture capitalists backing them — had reason to cheer. The Obama administration has made the military, the largest consumer of green energy in the country, a financial lifeline for cash-strapped alternative fuel innovators.
But the pilot voyage of the Navy's "great green fleet" came with a troubling aspect: price. The fleet's green fuel costs $26 a gallon, several times more than conventional diesel and jet fuel. And the costly experiment came just as the military moved into an era of deep budget cuts.
The Pentagon has allocated millions to help incubate a Bay Area firm that extracts oil from algae and another trying to make fuel from switchgrass. A Northern California firm working to turn massive amounts of garbage into liquid fuel and Emerald Biofuels, an Illinois company hoping to do the same with the kinds of grease used in cooking and food processing, are each positioned to win as much as $70 million in grants.
Critics contend the spending will line the pockets of lucky entrepreneurs, not bolster national defense or help the environment.
"This is really a house of cards," said Ike Kiefer, a recently retired Navy captain and faculty member at the U.S. Air Force Air War College, who has spent the last few years studying the fuel purchases.
"When you look at the absolute limits of what is possible, it doesn't work," he said. "This is not a question of waiting for another generation of technology."
Tthe administration is going ahead with plans to spend $510 million to help construct advanced biofuel plants. The Navy intends to start purchasing 170 million gallons of biofuel a year to meet its requirement of getting half its energy from renewable sources by 2020.
In Pleasanton, Calif., Fulcrum BioEnergy was having a hard time attracting investors for plans to convert 550 tons of trash per day into fuel that can be poured directly into gas tanks — until the Navy stepped in. Now, the Pentagon is committing as much as $70 million to Fulcrum's plans.
San Francisco-based Solazyme, which uses large fermentation tanks to grow algae, went from a small startup to a hot IPO in 2011 with the help of millions of dollars in military contracts. Green energy investors are buzzing about projections that the company will produce fuel at prices competitive with petroleum within five years.
Solazyme is investing in large plants in the Midwest and Brazil, which Graham Ellis, a company vice president, says underscores the company's faith in those projections.
tvd wrote:I can find no credible link to what you are inferring......http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video ... e.cnn.html
Meanwhile I do have a photo of the USS Barack Obama.....
http://s19.photobucket.com/user/digger4 ... e.jpg.html
RealJustme wrote:Good for you Elk you found Obama's floating golf course, I'm betting he's turned the officer's quarters into bath houses for him and his "butties", it's a terrible thing I tell you, terrible. Imagine if MSNBC had a picture of a carrier Bush had converted into a golf course, it would still be in the news and you would be swearing by it.So you want to now compare the number of vacation days that Bush took vs. Obama????
So you want to now compare the number of vacation days that Bush took vs. Obama????Elk you're a gift that keeps on giving, thanks for driving home my point.
johnforbes wrote:Bush Jr quit golfing when he became a wartime president.If you knew anything about golf, par is an outstanding score on the links.
Obama lacked that basic grace.
Clowntoker's posting was just par for the course.
johnforbes wrote:I am proud to say I know nothing about golf, not even the rules.Ball
Elkin, however, is just that sort of sissy.
And NOBODY's swing is "okay" after hitting just "a few" ballsBullshit, one guy scored a 34 on a 18 hole golf course and sunk 11 holes in one the first time he played golf. It was witnessed by hundreds of people including two generals and an admiral who were playing with the guy.
It takes many hundreds to get "okay" and thousands to get good.
I see The Tool has given up even the slightest attempt to make his idiotic trolling believable. :lol:Google it Clown, it's on record as happening by the President of a country.
That's not even good science fiction, dimwit.
RealJustme wrote:Going down to fetch my ballI see The Tool has given up even the slightest attempt to make his idiotic trolling believable. :lol:Google it Clown, it's on record as happening by the President of a country.
That's not even good science fiction, dimwit.
But why single me out when RealTool is admitting the same failing?Clown please don't place me in the same class as you, I'm not flattered.
A profit-driven industry does not invest in products for markets that cannot pay.”True but I didn't know the CDC which has a 6.5 billion dollar tax payer budget a year was profit driven?
^^^^^I would say RealTool is just trolling, but sadly he actually doesn't know that the CDC is not in the drug development business.Then why do they spend 35% of their 6.5 BILLION dollar budget on it?
Mission, Role and Pledge
On the cutting edge of health security – confronting global disease threats through advanced computing and lab analysis of huge amounts of data to quickly find solutions.
•Putting science into action – tracking disease and finding out what is making people sick and the most effective ways to prevent it through research and development.
•Helping medical care – bringing new knowledge to individual health care and community health to save more lives and reduce waste.
There's no money in finding cures for rare diseases that affect only a few thousand people in areas with no high dollar hospitals.Liberals know that but they think that's the way businesses should operate because that's the way the government operates, cost is no factor, just take more from the citizens. Maybe we should give businesses the power to tax people, that way they don't have to worry about operating efficiently and give people what ever they want.
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