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Biofuel Takes Flight
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, June 22, 2009.
Maybe you support the goals of green fuel. But maybe you’d give it a second thought at 35,000 feet, flying in a plane partially powered by algae.
Preliminary results from an Air New Zealand test flight in December show that burning jatropha oil can cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60 percent compared to conventional fuel. But the world’s airlines use sixty billion gallons of jet fuel every year, and Petroleum Week estimates that producing that much fuel from jatropha would require planting 1.4 million square kilometers of it, an area twice the size of France. Here to tell us more is David Biello. He’s associate editor at Scientific American and wrote about the greening of aviation for Yale Environment 360. Yale Environment 360: For Greening Aviation, Are Biofuels The Right Stuff? (Photo by Stephen Kallao via Flickr/Creative Commons) About usWord of Mouth is all about what's new. Online and on-air, the show looks at our fascinating and ever-changing world, and puts the latest ideas under a microscope. Word of Mouth investigates everything from science and technology, to health and the environment, to new trends in popular culture. The show airs Monday through Thursday at noon and is hosted by Virginia Prescott. Contact usSay what you want to say. How you want to say it. We want to hear from you. Search usPodcastWord of Mouth is on the move! Sign up for our podcast and take the show wherever you go.
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But they were just calculating on Oil ~3-5% of the Biomass developed by Jatropha the plant can deliver a lot more than this when processed using advanced biorefinery methods-See MixAlco.