Sentences with phrase «for aviation biofuels»

Not exact matches

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

This is the scale challenge of aviation, and demonstrates why biofuels may need to be almost exclusively reserved for air transport.

In the airline industry, for example, this would be useful because some countries require that aviation fuels include a specific biofuel percentage.

When Greene began analyzing emissions from the aviation sector in the 1980s, «the consensus was there really wasn't a role for biofuels in aircraft — let alone hydrogen,» he says.

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.

Last month Boeing, the Natural Resources Defense Council and others in the airline industry announced the creation of a group to study the prospects for biofuel jets, citing the oil - price volatility that has rocked the aviation industry, as well as efforts to cut carbon.

The search for cleaner aviation is already underway, with major airlines like Air New Zealand setting ambitious goals for sustainable biofuels and Virgin boss Richard Branson developing his own alternatives.

In considering climate change implications, it would seem that this work identifies priority areas for developing lower - carbon fuels — i.e., biofuels for aviation or, say, Qatar's process for turning natural gas into a jet fuel.

All told, Billy Glover, Boeing Commercial Airplanes» Managing Director for Environmental Strategy says that in the long term biofuels could replace 40 - 70 % of the fuels used in commercial aviation.

Demonstration of the key technological components for solar aviation «drop - in» fuel production that enables the use of existing fuel infrastructure, fuel system, and aircraft engine, while eliminating the logistical requirements of biofuels, hydrogen, or other alternative fuels.

The Air Force is calling for half its domestic aviation needs to be satisfied with biofuels by 2016 (see «Green Shades of Jet Fuel» below).

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $ 250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight.

This briefing demonstrates that biofuels are a false solution for the aviation industry.

We've written about Richard Branson and Virgin's foray into biofuels for aviation.

However Verno confirmed something which anyone even casually following aviation biofuels knows, that jatropha, camelina, algae and salicornia are being investigated for future flying use.

1/2 wedge of cellulosic biofuels for long - distance transport and what little aviation remains in 2050 — using 8 % of the world's cropland [or less land if yields significantly increase or algae - to - biofuels proves commercial at large scale].

Now we hear that Air New Zealand, whose previous efforts on biofuels for aviation have already caught our attention, has set a goal of using one million barrels of «environmentally sustainable» fuel annually by 2013.

In other words, it's certainly more scalable than trying to use most biofuels for aviation, but if this was the only source of «green» aviation fuel, there's some massive contraction in order of the global aviation industry.