cessna Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:50:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Cessna Plane Runs on Fuel Derived from Recycled Plastic https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cessna-plane-runs-on-fuel-derived-from-recycled-plastic-20130226/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cessna-plane-runs-on-fuel-derived-from-recycled-plastic-20130226/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:50:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=34069 In order to prove it, one Australian pilot, Jeremy Rowsell, is going to fly his Cessna from Sydney, Australia to London, England using only fuel derived from recycled plastic. Currently, the most abundant fuels on the planet are hydrocarbons, specifically petroleum which is extracted from underground, or undersea, reservoirs. Petroleum, when refined, doesn’t only end up as gasoline, […]

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