Comments on: Ethihad Jet Uses Biofuels for Inaugural Home Run

By: Private Jet Charter Prices

Private Jet Charter Prices — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:13:22 +0000

This is a very good news, biofuel shold be used from any airline, commercial private and military.

By: Laurie Balbo

Laurie Balbo — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:43:08 +0000

Love to hear your views on butanel-based biofuel: my amateur sleuthing on that thread showed positive spin that it might be the “alpha” biofuel once the nut of efficient (commercial scale) production is cracked. Especially attractive as it can be used w/o a fossil fuel blending-buddy – and – be shipped via existing pipelines and tankers.

Hard to tell where fact backs off and PR picks up – but butanol does seem to hold great potential.

Took a stroll through your blog – fantastic information and images. Perhaps post a link to it in these comments? Best, LB

By: John Brian Shannon

John Brian Shannon — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:05:43 +0000

Biofuels for aircraft use is a natural progression of a cleaner economy. It is finally picking up speed. Of course, the used cooking oil market has it’s limits – only so many million gallons are available per year.

Therefore, 2nd and 3rd generation biofuel crops are very important to bring on-stream ASAP.

I will call it real progress when all jets are flying a 50/50 blend of petroleum fuel and plant-based fuel. Doing so would lower carbon dioxide emissions dramatically and ease the pressure on the crude oil supply.

It can’t happen quickly enough from my perspective.

Thanks for the article. Cheers!

@JBSCanada