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<br>It's bad enough for some propeller airplanes to be referred to as being powered by elastic band. Now the skeptics might start having a dig at commercial aircraft flying on everything from cooking oil to liquefied algae.<br>
<br>With the civil air travel industry under increasing pressure from increasing oil prices and environmental legislation, the race is on to find viable options to standard kerosene and these up until now seem to boil down to numerous types of biofuel.<br>
<br>Not remarkably, the very first trials of alternative fuel were started by British aviation pioneer, Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Atlantic began London to Amsterdam flights with restricted biofuel usage in 2008. This was rapidly followed by Lufthansa and Air New Zealand who each utilized different 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 foodstuffs.<br>
<br>Jatropha is a genus of approximately 175 succulent plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like Jatropha curcas), from the family Euphorbiaceae.<br>
<br>In 2007 Goldman Sachs pointed out Jatropha curcas as one of the best candidates for future biodiesel production. It is resistant to drought and insects, and produces seeds containing 27-40% oil.<br>
<br>Recently, US aerospace giant Boeing, Brazilian aeronautical major Embraer and the Sao Paulo state Research Support Foundation relocated to carry out research and development into the use of biofuels to power jet . It was reported that Brazilian airlines Azul, Gol, TAM and Trip would serve as strategic specialists for the task.<br>
<br>The current airline company to start try out brand-new fuels is the Alaska Air Group which has carried out internal US flights utilizing a mix of 80 % petroleum based fuel and 20% biofuel made from cooking oil. This mix, it is declared, can cut harmful emissions by 10%.<br>
<br>One truly encouraging development has actually been the relocation away from biofuels which complete head on with food consumers therefore preventing a rate spiral. Not so long back, a rise in use of biofuels in vehicles triggered a spike in maize prices as US farmers diverted excessive corn to fuel processing.<br>
<br>Hopefully in the future, airline companies and vehicle drivers will focus biofuel intake on non-food sources such as jatropha and algae. It would be a mixed true blessing undoubtedly if some people wound up starving just to satisfy someone else's green qualifications.<br>