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Hainan – China’s First Cooking Oil Powered Commercial Flight

Mila Luleva — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:43:30 +0000

Hainan Airlines, China’s biggest private airline company, has completed the first for the country commercial flight, powered by biofuel from restaurant left-over cooking oil. Sure, we are all following the Swiss Solar Impulse 2, while the plane is circulating the world powered by solar, but while this is happening, the competition for eco-friendly air flights is […]

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Chinese Cooking to Help Keep Jets Airborne

Ari Luis — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 06:51:12 +0000

Have you had Chinese food lately? The oil used to stir fry your vegetables or fry your wanton will someday lift a jumbo jet or a Dreamliner if Boeing had its way. But they couldn’t wait for you to order all that takeout and instead went were literally billions of people eat Chinese food. Where […]

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Biomass-Based Jet Fuel to Be Produced in London and Australia by US-based Company

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:06:56 +0000

Did you know that German fighter airplanes used synthetic fuel made from biomass? This is what Australian line Qantas and US-based fuel producer Solena are negotiating about these days, in an attempt to replace the fossil-based fuels that currently power their airplanes.

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