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British Airways has announced that it will start producing jet fuel from landfill waste to reach its target of 50 percent reduced emissions by 2050.
The airline is partnering with biofuels company Solena to construct a waste-to-energy fuel plant in East London that will turn 500,000 tonnes of organic waste into 16 million gallons of jet fuel per year. The fuel will be made by treating the the waste in a high-temperature gasifier to create BioSynGas which is then converted to jet fuel using the Fischer Tropsch process. The plant will also create a by-product of 20 MW of electricity per year and have the added benefit of keeping waste out of landfills.
British Airways is only committing to use a 10 percent blend of the biofuel at this point, a disappointment when you consider the successful test runs of 50/50 bio-jet fuel blends. The airline plans to start using the fuel by 2014.
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written by Paul, February 26, 2010
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Is there enough organic waste to spread on fields and to convert in fuel?
Or would it be a human disaster like the biofuel made with Colsa or corn? Those genial solutions, for fuel, are actually destroying lot's of country, because you get more profit by making colsa or corn or for fuel than to make food for the people of the country. The price of food rise, and that's a total disaster for every one, specially for poor country.
As we all know that organic waste are used by farmer to fertilize their fields, my concerne is: "Would the prise of organic rise and be too expensive for farmer?" That would reduce their production of food... That's not really good :-(
I hope you would understand my comment, even with my poor english.