US Navy deploys 'Great Green Fleet'

Madeleine Cuff
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Despite plummeting fuel prices US Navy formally launches warships powered partly by biofuels

The US Navy has launched its first flotilla of biofuel-powered warships this week in the next stage of fleet-wide efforts to cut the organisation's reliance on oil. The so-called "Great Green Fleet"...

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