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By Ryan Randazzo, The Republic | azcentral.com The U.S. military’s increasing use of alternative fuels and electricity sources is making the nation stronger and helping drive down commercial prices for renewable energy, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Thursday in Tempe. Mabus, who oversees a $170 billion annual budget and about 900,000 people, was speaking to the […]

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U.S. Navy researchers say they’ve figured out a way to convert seawater into jet fuel, the Huffington Post reports. Experts have been working on the idea for almost a decade, Discover notes; it could be commercially viable within 10 years, the Navy says. Right now, however, researchers are showing off the technique using a model plane. It works by […]

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