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Fly Away On Airplane Biofuel
Monday, 31 March 2008
Biofuel station The world’s largest airplane, the Airbus A380, was recently used to test alternative fuels, marking an important step in the greening of the airline industry. As reported by Reuters, The double-decker A380 required no special modifications to use gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel which, when mixed with normal jet fuel, performs the same as with regular fuel. A spokesman for Airbus said, “The airplane does not know the difference.”

The fuel, used in one of the plane’s four engines, was a mix of 60 percent standard jet kerosene and 40 percent GTL, was used in one of the A380's four engines. The GTL is manufactured in Malaysia from natural gas, so it’s not technically a biofuel. But Sebastien Remy, head of Airbus SAS's alternative fuel program, told Reuters that it was the first step toward developing a fuel for jet engines that could be made from “anything from wood chips to crops.”, according to Sebastien Remy, head of Airbus SAS's alternative fuel program.

Airbus hopes the experiment will boost efforts to create cleaner fuels that will offset the greenhouse emissions created by air travel. You can read more at USA Today.
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