Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Avgas doesn't do the damage to a turbine engine that jet fuel does to a piston engine. In fact, turbine engines, with a fuel controller adjustment, can run any number of fuels. I've run turbojets that were designed to run on avgas, and did. J34's on the P2V neptune and the C-119, for example.
The Army once did a demo of different fuels with an M1 Abrams tank (it's turbine powered, like Navy surface combatants). This included running the tank on peanut butter (presumably the creamy kind).
Turbines can run on almost anything that burns, with minor tweaks.