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It's bad enough for some prop airplanes to be described as being powered by rubber bands. Now the skeptics could start having a dig at industrial aircraft flying on everything from cooking oil to melted algae.
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With the civil air travel market under increasing pressure from increasing oil rates and ecological legislation, the race is on to find viable alternatives to standard kerosene and these so far appear to come down to different types of biofuel.
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Not remarkably, the very first trials of alternative fuel were initiated by British air travel leader, Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Atlantic began London to Amsterdam flights with restricted biofuel use in 2008. This was quickly followed by Lufthansa and Air New Zealand who each utilized various blends of regular fuel and bio derivatives consisting of some from made from jatropha which can grow in soil considered too bad for growing mainstream foods items.
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Jatropha is a genus of approximately 175 succulent plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like Jatropha curcas), from the family Euphorbiaceae.
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In 2007 Goldman Sachs cited Jatropha curcas as one of the for future biodiesel production. It is resistant to dry spell and insects, and produces seeds consisting of 27-40% oil.
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Recently, US aerospace giant Boeing, Brazilian aeronautical significant Embraer and the Sao Paulo state Research Support Foundation moved to perform research and development into making use of biofuels to power jet airliners. It was reported that Brazilian airlines Azul, Gol, TAM and Trip would function as strategic consultants for the task.
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The newest airline company to start try out brand-new fuels is the Alaska Air Group which has carried out internal US flights using a blend of 80 % petroleum based fuel and 20% biofuel made from cooking oil. This mix, it is declared, can cut hazardous emissions by 10%.
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One really motivating development has actually been the move away from biofuels which contend head on with food customers therefore avoiding a cost spiral. Not so long back, a rise in usage of biofuels in cars triggered a spike in maize costs as US farmers diverted too much corn to fuel processing.
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Hopefully in the future, airline companies and drivers will focus biofuel consumption on non-food sources such as jatropha and algae. It would be a combined true blessing undoubtedly if some people ended up starving simply to satisfy another person's green credentials.
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