used oil as jet fuel Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:43:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Hainan – China’s First Cooking Oil Powered Commercial Flight https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hainan-cooking-oil-flight/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hainan-cooking-oil-flight/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:43:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=53892 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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