Rhumb Lines: Great Green Fleet to Demonstrate During RIMPAC, July 17, 2012   [open pdf - 131KB]

This issue of "Rhumb Lines" highlights the "five energy goals to reduce the Department of the Navy's (DoN's) energy consumption, decrease its reliance on foreign sources of oil and significantly increase its use of alternative energy." The "Great Green Fleet" is a "carrier strike group powered by fuels produced from non-petroleum sources, including nuclear power and advanced biofuel blends."