Sentences with phrase «aviation fuel at»

Not exact matches

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The money was paid from the airport fund, which receives revenues from airport landing fees, aviation fuel sales, and other money raised at the airport.

At the same time, the aviation industry has become far more fuel efficient in the face of soaring prices.

But for biofuels to really take flight — or at least achieve the global aviation fuel use goal of at least 1 percent — a minimum of five facilities capable of churning out 100 million gallons or more would have to be built.

Ian Poll, professor of aerospace engineering at the Cranfield University in England, in a recent lecture covered by the Times of London called for a «big research program to help the aviation industry convert from fossil fuels to nuclear energy.»

The company is also active in studying the use of biofuel and has partnered with AltAirFuels, a producer of sustainable aviation biofuel, to implement renewable jet fuel at its Los Angeles hub later this year.

More from The Guardian: «Sarah Evans, vice-president for communications at the X Prize Foundation, said that the foundation would bring together experts in the aviation and green technology sectors, including representatives from the Federal Aviation Authority's commercial aviation alternative fuel initiative, to hammer out the exact details of the competition, with the aim of announcing final plans in summer next year.

The introduction of biofuels could mitigate some of aviation's carbon emissions, if biofuels can be developed to meet the demanding specifications of the aviation industry, although both the costs of such fuels and the emissions from their production process are uncertain at this time (medium agreement, medium evidence)[5.3.3].

According to Todd Harrison, a defense budget studies expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, aviation fuel represents nearly 73 per cent of DoD energy use.

«Decarbonization of heavy industry and aviation will be difficult, which makes converting industrial waste gases into low - carbon jet fuel a fascinating prospect,» said James Beard, climate and aviation specialist at WWF in the U.K. «All airlines should pursue the development of genuinely sustainable, low - carbon fuels that are certified to minimize indirect land use change.»

These factors include, accounting for non-CO2 gases generated by the combustion of aviation fuel (i.e. sulphur and methane), flying through certain types of clouds, and even flying at night.

But once it corrects (or the economy just collapses), the tar sands will only be needed for aviation fuel (or not at all).

With those remarks at the heart of his State of the Union address - and a 2012 Budget proposal to back them up - President Obama drew a line in the sand and articulated a vision of American economic renewal fueled by key investments in the kind of public - private partnership that brought us the railroads and jet aviation, microchips and the Internet, countless biomedical breakthroughs and a portfolio of clean energy alternatives.

It does not necessarily follow that aviation fuel tax is a sensible or politically possible policy, but at least it is possible to clarify the legal background.

The Scheme ensures that communities using aviation fuel do so at no additional cost.