AVIATION PING!...................
AVIATION PING!...................
Was the cooking oil new or used?
“Airbus has conducted the first ever flight of its giant A380 jumbo jet using 100 percent biofuel. This is the third Airbus aircraft to fly using the sustainable fuel made up of primarily cooking oil”
With the world facing food shortages for the next two years...
Were the passengers informed before, during, or after the flight that their jet was running on an experimental fuel?
Let me guess...they used 120 tons of fossil fuel to make 100 tons of “biofuel” and used up a thousand acres of prime farm land doing it.
So what is the carbon footprint required to produced all of the biomass necessary to generate enough jet fuel to keep the airlines flying?
Just asking for a friend.
I’m other news, the price of Wesson oil just quadtruped for no apparent reason. More news at ten.
With looming food shortages, what we need to be working on are ways to burn our food as fuel...
This is interesting. Some while back I read an article and watched a video about a guy who converted his car to diesel fuel and then was able to strike a deal with restaurants in his town by taking their waste kitchen grease and recycling it into fuel.
A lot of racing fuels are made of castor beans. I would attend flat-track motorcycle races a long time ago and all the bikes ran on the castor-oil fuel. It left a vapor and a peculiar smell in the air but apparently it’s harmless. Unlike gasoline.
The guy who recycled restaurant grease (he had a home distillery in a little shed behind his house!) said that after about two years it amounted to him getting free gas for his internal combustion engine car.
Probably dirtier than the regular they use
The “mileage” of jets is calculated in “air nautical miles per pound”, and the amount of fuel is given in pounds, not gallons.
I’m thinking the mileage of the 380 was “air nautical miles per ton”. Any inputs from the folks who fly the big stuff? (I only flew the trainer & fighter stuff.)
The smell of French fries everywhere from coast to coast.
Why?
Oh great. Now Joe will be demanding all US aircraft use biofuel starting net year.
How much more did this “fuel” cost above regular jet fuel?
No words as to the $$$$ cost or the energy required to produce this stuff!
If dino jet fuel is costing the average US airline in the $2.50 range (I am sure that it is more expensive now; this is the best I could come up with), this biofuel HAS GOT TO BE MORE EXPENSIVE!
Yeah, I wanna ride in that. /s
Biofuel is a solution looking for a problem.