It made me simultaneously giggle and wince when I read that a bio-fuel study conducted by NASA is testing chicken fat as an alternative renewable jet fuel source.
Researchers are using a NASA DC-8 to test what they call “Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel.” “It’s made out of chicken fat, actually,” said Bruce Anderson, AAFEX II project scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Performance and emissions are being tested as part of the experiment called Alternative Aviation Fuel Experiment II, or AAFEX II. 17 organizations from private industry, other federal organizations, and academia are participating in AAFEX II.
