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Japan – Test flight completed
Japan Airlines Corp on Friday test flew a Boeing 747-300 jet powered with environmentally-friendly bio-fuel from Tokyo, in the first test of its kind among Asian airlines, Dow Jones reports.
One of the jumbo jet's four Pratt & Whitney engines was powered by a blend of conventional kerosene-based jet fuel and a Boeing Co developed bio-fuel, which reduces carbon dioxide emissions in flights.
The bio-fuel is derived mainly from the flowering plant camelina, which is inedible, making it less likely that its jet fuel application would affect the world food market. Flight Global adds that JAL said its blend was 50% bio-fuel and 50% jet kerosene and of the bio-fuel component, camelina made up 84%, jatropha 16% and algae less than 1%.
JAL’s group president and CEO said that when bio-fuels are produced in sufficient amounts to make them commercially viable, ‘we hope to be one of the first airlines in the world to power aircraft using bio-fuels.’ (30 January 2009)
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- HECO to buy biodiesel fuel from MainlandHonolulu Advertiser1 second ago
Hawaiian Electric Co. said it has signed a contract for biodiesel produced from animal waste fat and cooking oil to power its new $137 million generating plant at Campbell Industrial Park on Oahu.
- HECO strikes deal with Iowa company for biodiesel supplyHonolulu Advertiser7 hours ago
Hawaiian Electric Company said today it has struck a deal with Iowa-based Renewable Energy Group to supply three to seven million gallons of biodiesel per year for years to be used at HECO's new 110-megawatt combustion turbine generator at Campbell Industrial Park.
- Biodiesel Industry Suffers as Tax Credit EndsAutomotive Fleet11 hours ago
OKLAHOMA CITY - With the expiration of a federal tax credit that provided makers of biodiesel $1 for every gallon, some U.S. biodiesel producers say they will shut down without the government subsidy.
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