Add Airlines Focus On Biofuel Trials Gather Momentum

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+<br>It's bad enough for some propeller airplanes to be described as being powered by rubber bands. Now the skeptics could start having a dig at business airplane flying on whatever from cooking oil to liquefied algae.<br>
+<br>With the civil aviation market under increasing pressure from increasing oil prices and environmental legislation, the race is on to find [viable alternatives](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) to conventional kerosene and these up until now seem to come down to different kinds of [biofuel](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048).<br>
+<br>Not remarkably, the very first trials of alternative fuel were initiated by British air travel pioneer, Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Atlantic started London to [Amsterdam flights](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) with minimal [biofuel](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) usage in 2008. This was rapidly followed by Lufthansa and Air New Zealand who each used different blends of routine fuel and bio derivatives including some from made from [jatropha](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) which can grow in soil considered too bad for growing mainstream foods items.<br>
+<br>[jatropha curcas](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) is a genus of roughly 175 [succulent](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like [Jatropha](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) [jatropha curcas](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm)), from the household Euphorbiaceae.<br>
+<br>In 2007 Goldman Sachs pointed out [Jatropha](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) [jatropha curcas](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) as one of the very best candidates for future [biodiesel](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) production. It is resistant to [drought](https://biodieselmagazine.com/articles/felda-global-buys-missions-kuantan-port-plant-for-11-5-million-9053) and insects, and produces seeds containing 27-40% oil.<br>
+<br>Recently, US aerospace giant Boeing, Brazilian aeronautical major Embraer and the [Sao Paulo](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) state Research Support Foundation transferred to perform research study and advancement into making use of biofuels to power jet [airliners](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US). It was reported that Brazilian airlines Azul, Gol, TAM and Trip would serve as strategic specialists for the project.<br>
+<br>The most recent airline to start explore brand-new fuels is the Alaska Air Group which has performed internal US flights using a mix of 80 % [petroleum based](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) fuel and 20% [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) made from cooking oil. This mixture, it is claimed, can cut [damaging emissions](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) by 10%.<br>
+<br>One really motivating advancement has actually been the move away from biofuels which complete head on with food customers therefore avoiding a price spiral. Not so long back, a rise in use of biofuels in automobiles triggered a spike in maize prices as US farmers diverted too much corn to fuel processing.<br>
+<br>Hopefully in the future,  and motorists will focus [biofuel](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) intake on [non-food sources](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) such as [jatropha curcas](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) and algae. It would be a blended true blessing indeed if some individuals wound up starving just to please somebody else's green credentials.<br>