Sentences with phrase «of jet fuel»

Now we need to worry about global warming and the high price of jet fuel.

The test flights are part of an aviation industry plan to derive 1 percent of jet fuel from petroleum alternatives by 2015, or roughly 600 million gallons a year.

You also have a limited amount of jet fuel, so you need to conserve it when you can.

One the other hand, these suggestions might serve as a tempting dose of jet fuel for what is already a good match.

It helps keep the vehicle size small, but because it's a very specialized form of jet fuel, it's quite expensive.

Higher than expected costs and longer development times, have hampered the project, which would create a unusual source of jet fuel.

Production of jet fuel has already risen in recent years.

We have cut our consumption of jet fuel by probably 50 % per seat over the last 20 years.

I looked at ticket prices, noted the price of jet fuel, etc..

They can't compete with the fossil fuels we released from underground — the source of the jet fuel I would have been responsible for.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports on the rising cost of jet fuel and whether it will affect airfares just ahead of holiday travel season.

There is not enough oil from plants such as soy and canola to supply even a fraction of the 60 million — plus gallons of jet fuel burned every day by U.S. aircraft, nearly one quarter of global use, even if all such sources were converted to fuel (which would significantly impact food supplies.)

The cost of that fuel is based on the market price of jet fuel on the day I looked up those tickets, which was $ 0.475 / kg.

«If you're expecting to have hundreds of millions of gallons of jet fuel in the next five years produced from a plant feedstock, it's almost certainly going to be Camelina.»

(pdf) British Airways has led the way with its pioneering commitment in February 2010 to build a plant in the UK that will convert 500,000 tonnes of waste material into 16 million gallons of jet fuel annually.

This in turn would extrapolate to an additional 480,000 US gallons of jet fuel consumed, and an additional 4.6 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted, each year.

British Airways has partnered with Washington, D.C. - based Solena Fuels to make 50,000 metric tons of jet fuel per year from... municipal solid waste.

So although the air travel industry faces two huge challenges — the rising price of oil, and the environmental impact of the roughly 1.5 billion barrels of jet fuel that the airline industry burns through each year — the solutions are likely to be all but invisible.

The acrid miasma of 91,000 liters of jet fuel and the 10,000,000 tons of building materials and contents burning at temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius extended from lower Manhattan across the East River into Brooklyn and beyond to the sea.

What makes Neste's fuel different from other competitors in the race to develop a bio-jet fuel is that the company already operates two refineries that make biodiesel for it, so it can quickly scale up and produce much larger quantities of jet fuel that can, according to the company, cut an airliner's greenhouse gas emissions from 40 to 90 percent.

Camelina grower Sustainable Oils — which provided the camelina oil to make the 1,000 gallons of jet fuel needed for the KLM flight — plans to cover more than 20,000 hectares in Montana with the weedy relative of canola, enough to deliver some 9.5 million liters of raw oil.

Researchers from MIPT, Viktor Zhukov, Vladislav Sechenov and Andrei Starikovsky, have published experimental data on the combustion of jet fuel in the journal Fuel.

In their paper, the scientists described how quickly a mixture of jet fuel and oxygen ignites depending on different conditions.

«The cells that make up the omentum contain the biological equivalent of jet fuel.

If you don't mind the smell of jet fuel and want a more exciting beach to relax on, St. Maarten is definitely a great stop on your next southern Caribbean cruise.

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).

Now that they have been up there putting aluminum, barium, strontium and a mix of other poisons along with an influx of jet fuel emissions its going to be all that much harder to clean up our atmosphere.

Airbus expects that by 2030 about 30 % of all jet fuel used will be biofuel.

A midsize jet with four passengers uses about 1500 gallons of fuel to fly from New York to Phoenix; burning a gallon of jet fuel emits 21.095 pounds of CO2.

One Third of Current Fuel Demand The 15 billion gallons of jet fuel mentioned certainly sounds like a lot, but based on Air Transport Association stats, it's roughly one - third of all fuel used by the global aviation industry, both passenger and cargo flights.

UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, said last week it will shrink its fleet by up to 4 percent this year to combat the skyrocketing cost of jet fuel.

Finally, making large amounts of jet fuel from algae represents a major hurdle, from perfecting the algae's growth to extracting the oil cost - effectively.

But kerosene or rocket - propellant grade kerosene, which is also what jets use — rockets use a very expensive form, a highly refined form of jet fuel, essentially, which is a form of kerosene.

Since January alone, the rise in the price of jet fuel from 70 cents a litre to 90 cents has taken $ 200 million off the company's bottom line on an annual basis, according to Robert Palmer, a spokesman for WestJet.

To provide some context, a 767 burns roughly 7,000 gallons of jet fuel on a trip between New York and San Francisco.

This partnership to produce a next generation, low - carbon aviation fuel is a major step towards radically reducing our carbon footprint... With oil running out, it is important that new fuel solutions are sustainable and, with the steel industry alone able to deliver over 15 billion gallons of jet fuel annually, the potential is very exciting.

Of course, the biofuel's ultimate price tag is yet to be determined as only «gallons» of it have been brewed compared with the more than 60 million gallons (225 million liters) of jet fuel consumed daily in the U.S..

Airline industry have to engage in bulk purchase of oil futures for which they have to lock in a certain price of jet fuel for charging appropriate price to consumers who book the tickets way in advance.

The dropping prices of jet fuel are one major factor that can account for the low ticket prices.

The overwhelming challenge is how to produce enough biofuel to supply even a fraction of the more than 60 billion gallons of jet fuel burned every year by the world's aircraft.

Now, as reported at Bloomberg, a partnership between US - based LanzaTech and Virgin Atlantic claims to have produced 1,500 gallons of jet fuel from low - carbon ethanol.

«Not only is the consumer going to be paying more for their gasoline but for airline tickets... The price of both jet fuel and diesel fuel continue to rise.»