"The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency is developing a pilot program to supply a blend of alternative fuels to Air Force and Army units operating in Alaska, officials with the agency said March 11 at a conference in Anchorage.
Mark Iden, deputy operations director of the Defense Energy Support Center, a part of the Defense Logistics Agency, said his agency is soliciting proposals from industry to supply a 50-50 blend of alternative and conventional fuels.
The agency wants the alternative fuels made through the Fischer-Tropsch process, a chemical process that converts carbon-based material like biomass, natural gas or coal to high-quality liquid products."
There have been other, spurious, reports that the Air Force ended their coal-to-jet fuel program. Obviously not true.
Remember: A Dept. of Defense under secretary referred, last summer, when speaking in Pittsburgh, to West Virginia as the, potentially, "new Kuwait", based on her coal reserves and the reality of coal-to-liquid technologies.