This Plant Fuels ANY Diesel Engine. The Navy Flew Supersonic On It. Big Oil BURIED The Knowledge.

📖 The Nature’s Lost Vault Book Is Now Available. Learn more: https://naturelostvault.com/book.htmlThe US Navy flew supersonic on it. Montana farmers grew it under military contract. A carrier strike group deployed on it in 2012. Then oil prices dropped, the lobbying kicked in, and the program died in 18 months.Most people have never heard the name camelina. But 4,000 years of European farmers knew it as Gold-of-Pleasure, the oil crop that needed no irrigation, no fertilizer, and no permission. A single acre pressed enough fuel to light a village through winter. The ancient Romans burned it. The Bronze Age stored it in sealed clay vessels. And in 2010, a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet broke the sound barrier on it over the Chesapeake Bay.What happened between that flight and today is a case study in how energy independence gets erased. Not by hiding the science, the Navy published every result. By making sure the infrastructure could never survive when oil prices fell. The American Petroleum Institute spent years killing the federal mandates that would have protected the camelina program from exactly that moment. When crude dropped from $115 to $50 a barrel in 2014, the program had nowhere to stand.The seed is still legal in all 50 states. It still grows in 90 days on soil too poor for wheat. It still presses into fuel that meets American and European biodiesel standards. In Ukraine, farmers who never stopped growing it are still pressing it by hand in equipment their grandparents used. The knowledge was never lost. It was just made irrelevant on purpose.📚 Sources:- Brock, Jordan R., and Kenneth M. Olsen. "Molecular and Archaeological Evidence on the Geographical Origin of Domestication for Camelina sativa." American Journal of Botany 109, no. 10 (2022): 1563–1578.- Budin, James T., Walter M. Breene, and Daniel H. Putnam. "Some Compositional Properties of Camelina (Camelina sativa L. Crantz) Seeds and Oils." Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society 72, no. 3 (1995): 309–315.- Frohlich, A., and B. Rice. "Evaluation of Camelina sativa Oil as a Feedstock for Biodiesel Production." Industrial Crops and Products 21, no. 1 (2005): 25–31.- Moser, Bryan R. "Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) Oil as a Biofuels Feedstock: Golden Opportunity or False Hope?" Lipid Technology 22, no. 12 (2010): 270–273.- Bernardo, A., R. Howard-Hildige, A. O'Connell, R. Nichol, J. Ryan, B. Rice, E. Roche, and J. J. Leahy. "Camelina Oil as a Fuel for Diesel Transport Engines." Industrial Crops and Products 17, no. 3 (2003): 191–197.- Snyder, Corry S., and Michael C. Romann. "Life Cycle Analysis of Camelina-Derived Jet Fuel." Michigan Technological University Report prepared for the US Department of Defense, 2010.- US Department of the Navy. "Navy Biofuel Certification and the Great Green Fleet." Office of Naval Research Program Summary, 2012.- US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). "Green Hornet: F/A-18 Super Hornet Alternative Fuel Flight Demonstration." Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, April 22, 2010.- Pilgeram, Armand L. "Camelina sativa, a Montana Omega-3 and Fuel Crop." In Trends in New Crops and New Uses, edited by J. Janick and A. Whipkey. Alexandria, VA: ASHS Press, 2007.- Ehrensing, Daryl T., and Stephen O. Guy. "Camelina." Oregon State University Extension Service Publication EM 8953-E, 2008.#energyindependence #biofuel #homestead #survival