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<br>It's bad enough for some propeller airplanes to be explained as being powered by rubber bands. Now the skeptics might begin having a dig at business airplane flying on everything from cooking oil to melted algae.<br>
<br>With the civil aviation market under increasing pressure from increasing oil prices and environmental legislation, the race is on to find practical alternatives to traditional kerosene and these up until now seem to come down to numerous kinds of biofuel.<br>
<br>Not surprisingly, the very first trials of alternative fuel were initiated by British air travel pioneer, Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Atlantic began London to Amsterdam flights with minimal biofuel usage in 2008. This was rapidly followed by Lufthansa and Air New Zealand who each used different blends of routine fuel and bio derivatives consisting of some from made from jatropha which can grow in soil considered too bad for growing mainstream foods.<br>
<br>Jatropha is a genus of approximately 175 succulent plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like Jatropha curcas), from the household Euphorbiaceae.<br>
<br>In 2007 Goldman Sachs cited Jatropha curcas as one of the finest prospects for future biodiesel production. It is resistant to dry spell and insects, and produces seeds containing 27-40% oil.<br>
<br>Recently, US aerospace giant Boeing, Brazilian aeronautical significant Embraer and the Sao Paulo state Research Support Foundation transferred to carry out research and advancement into using biofuels to power jet airliners. It was reported that Brazilian airline companies Azul, Gol, TAM and Trip would function as strategic specialists for the job.<br>
<br>The most recent airline to begin explore brand-new fuels is the Alaska Air Group which has performed 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 damaging by 10%.<br>
<br>One actually motivating development has actually been the move far from biofuels which complete head on with food consumers therefore preventing a price spiral. Not so long earlier, a surge in use of biofuels in cars triggered a spike in maize prices as US farmers diverted too much corn to fuel processing.<br>
<br>Hopefully in the future, airlines and vehicle drivers will focus biofuel usage on non-food sources such as jatropha and algae. It would be a blended blessing undoubtedly if some individuals wound up starving just to satisfy somebody else's green qualifications.<br>