Saturday, January 31, 2009

Jatropha (revisited)-- on Kiwi planes!

I've blogged on this intriguing bio-fuel previously...

Here's an update from World...

Air New Zealand will test biofuels on a Boeing jumbo jet to see whether fuel made from jatropha trees can displace costly jet fuel. One engine on the flight departing from Auckland will run on a mixture of half jet fuel and half jatropha oil....

Click here to read about the successful first flight on December 30th.

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