tobacco Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Boeing to Make Jet Fuel from Hybrid Tobacco Plants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/boeing-make-jet-fuel-hybrid-tobacco-plants-20140808/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/boeing-make-jet-fuel-hybrid-tobacco-plants-20140808/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:07:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48794 Growing tobacco is a billion dollar industry, but while producers are happy, millions of people worldwide die from cancer and heart disease due to cigarette smoking every year. Now, Boeing says that cultivating the deadly plant is not a bad thing, especially if it can be turned it into biofuel for jets. In many regions of the […]

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