Billy Glover explains how petroleum-based aviation fuel could disappear
The Change
Aviation has always run on petroleum. In fact, jet fuel had been the same from the dawn of the jet age up until about three years ago. Then the airline industry changed international jet-fuel specifications to allow the use of renewable fuel sources. Airlines can now use renewables alongside jet fuel in a 50 percent blend. Already, as an industry, we’ve flown 1,500 flights with passengers—real revenue flights—with sustainable biofuels.
See full Article: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/jet-fuel-becomes-sustainable
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