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<br>It's bad enough for some propeller airplanes to be explained as being powered by rubber bands. Now the skeptics could start having a dig at business airplane flying on everything from cooking oil to liquefied algae.<br>
<br>With the civil air travel industry under increasing pressure from [increasing oil](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) prices and ecological legislation, the race is on to find viable options to conventional kerosene and these up until now appear to boil down to different kinds of [biofuel](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb).<br>
<br>Not remarkably, the first trials of alternative fuel were initiated by British air travel pioneer, Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Atlantic started London to Amsterdam flights with limited biofuel use in 2008. This was quickly followed by Lufthansa and Air New Zealand who each utilized various blends of routine fuel and bio derivatives consisting of some from made from [jatropha](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/51278-86) which can grow in soil thought about too bad for growing mainstream [foodstuffs](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb).<br>
<br>[jatropha curcas](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) is a genus of roughly 175 plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like [Jatropha curcas](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889)), from the household Euphorbiaceae.<br>
<br>In 2007 Goldman Sachs mentioned [Jatropha](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) [jatropha curcas](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) as one of the finest prospects for future [biodiesel](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) production. It is resistant to dry spell and bugs, and produces seeds including 27-40% oil.<br>
<br>Recently, US aerospace giant Boeing, Brazilian aerial significant Embraer and the Sao Paulo state Research Support Foundation moved to perform research and development into using biofuels to [power jet](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) [airliners](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4). It was reported that Brazilian airline [companies](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) Azul, Gol, TAM and Trip would serve as tactical experts for the job.<br>
<br>The most recent airline to begin try out new fuels is the Alaska Air Group which has actually [carried](https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/mission-newenergy-limited) out internal US [flights utilizing](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price) a mix of 80 % [petroleum based](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) fuel and 20% [biofuel](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) made from [cooking oil](https://www.abnnewswire.net/companies/en/31347/%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A9%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%97-Mission-NewEnergy-%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94.html/4). This mixture, it is declared, can cut damaging emissions by 10%.<br>
<br>One actually encouraging advancement has actually been the move away from biofuels which compete head on with food consumers consequently avoiding a cost spiral. Not so long earlier, a rise in use of biofuels in automobiles triggered a spike in maize prices as US farmers diverted too much corn to fuel processing.<br>
<br>Hopefully in the future, airlines and motorists will focus [biofuel](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) usage on [non-food sources](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) such as [jatropha curcas](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608) and algae. It would be a combined true blessing certainly if some [people wound](https://www.investing.com/equities/mission-newenergy-ltd-company-profile) up starving just to satisfy another person's green credentials.<br>