Confirmed: Biofuels Better Than Fossil Fuels in Jet Engines – Scaling Them Up is the Major Problem
Read the full post at Treehugger.
Data on biofuel test flights than took place nearly six months ago (Continental Airlines’ flight took place in January and JAL’s a bit more recently) is resurfacing at the Paris Air Show.
The gist of it is something that has been repeatedly highlighted in the intervening months, that biofuels perform as well or slightly better than fossil fuels in jet engines, with Continental saying that their biofuel blend increased fuel efficiency by 1.1%. But that doesn’t mean that we’re really much closer to wide-scale use.