After decades of waiting, commercial airlines have been given the go-ahead to use fuel made from algae, wood chips and other plants with obscure names. Test flights in recent years by United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL), Japan Airlines Co. and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. have shown that planes can fly on everything from coconut oil . . . → Read More: Bloomberg: Airlines Prepare to Take Off on Fuel Made From Algae, Wood Chips
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Brisbane Airport is pushing for Queensland to become a leader in the development of alternative aviation biofuels. The CSIRO released the findings of the Flightpath to Sustainable Aviation report aimed at addressing the industry’s dependence on the world’s dwindling oil supplies. The report confirmed the viability of a ‘bio-derived’ Australian and New Zealand aviation fuels . . . → Read More: Australia: Biofuel push for Queensland aviation Biofuels company Algae.Tec (ASX: AEB, FWB: GZA:GR, ALGXY:US) executive chairman Roger Stroud indirectly acquired 48,000 shares at $0.30 per share on July 1 in on market purchases. The shares were acquired for a consideration of A$14,423 and Stroud now holds 321,549 shares through Mere View Investments Ltd and 200,000,001 shares through Teco Bio LLC, with . . . → Read More: Algae.Tec directors top-up shareholding Airlines won the backing of a U.S.- based technical-standards group to power their planes with a blend of traditional fuel and biofuel from inedible plants, the Air Transport Association said. Fuel processed from organic waste or non-food materials, such as algae or wood chips, may comprise as much as 50 percent of the total fuel . . . → Read More: Bloomberg: Biofuels From Algae, Wood Chips Are Approved for Use by Passenger Airlines In a bid to make biofuels cheaper, a startup called Proterro, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is developing a way to cut the cost of making sugar, a basic building block for ethanol. The company is engineering photosynthetic microorganisms to secrete large amounts of sugar, and it is designing a bioreactor for growing the organisms . . . → Read More: Engineered Organisms for Making Cheap Sugar |
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