Fuelling the biofuels debate

Biofuels for civil aviation is currently receiving substantial mileage in the general media. There was a distinct feeding frenzy, in the non specialist media, when Richard Branson’s Virgin group flew a 747 between London and Amsterdam, last month, using biofuels in one of its four tanks. (see Biofuel Review story)

The move was swiftly followed by last week’s announcement by US carrier Continental, that it too was going to conduct a biofuel test early next year, and this week The National Business Review in New Zealand unveiled that Air New Zealand was looking at an algae based fuel to test.

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