US Navy seeks Australian Sugarcane and Grain Biofuels to Power Its Fleet
September 2, 2015http://www.world-grain.com/news/news%20home/LexisNexisArticle.aspx?articleid=2430698506
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Australian agriculture could help to literally fuel the United States Navy's expansion in the Asia-Pacific as the US moves towards powering its navy war craft with a biofuel blend by 2020.
Dr Ian O'Hara from Queensland University of Technology recently received a grant from the Federal Government to investigate how Australian crop waste can be used to fuel the US Navy's ships. However, the overall aim of his research was to help make Australian farmers more profitable by finding new uses for their crops.
"One of the big challenges facing Australian agriculture at the moment is that, while productivity is very high, the profit is very low," said Dr. O'Hara. "So we are trying to find ways that we can convert the wastes of farming into high value products like animal feeds, fuels and chemicals."
Aside from sugarcane, sorghum is another crop with untapped potential for fuel production, according to food technologist Ross Naidoo, from Queensland's Department of Agriculture.
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