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British Airways operates carbon-neutral flight using recycled cooking oil
The Hill ^ | 09/16/2021 | CELINE CASTRONUOVO

Posted on 09/16/2021 1:12:47 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just try this in the winter...


21 posted on 09/16/2021 1:44:29 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, if a bird get sucked into one of those engines it will come out perfectly cooked .... i.e. your goose is cooked


22 posted on 09/16/2021 1:45:52 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: servo1969

>>Trucked again. All of that required fossil fuels.
How is that carbon-neutral?<<

They use the same measurement methods they do when measuring gretta von bratnfinger’s carbon footprint when they jet her to places to yell and wag her uneducated finger at grown ups.


23 posted on 09/16/2021 1:45:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

Yep, it will gel and turn to vegetable shortening.


24 posted on 09/16/2021 1:47:08 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Substituting one hydrocarbon for a different hydrocarbon? How much savings could there be? This sounds more live a “victory” for recycling than reducing co2 emission.


25 posted on 09/16/2021 1:47:21 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: packagingguy

The first diesel was designed to run on peanut oil.


26 posted on 09/16/2021 1:48:51 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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27 posted on 09/16/2021 1:48:57 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake election, fake president, real deaths.)
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To: KC_Lion

We don’t know why the planes keep crashing. Maybe we should use more oil.

Didn’t 5 of their pilots die after getting the clot shot?


28 posted on 09/16/2021 1:54:13 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: servo1969

It’s all about the feelz


29 posted on 09/16/2021 1:59:17 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: decal

No, jet fuel is kerosene.

On the descending refinery list you have jet, gasoline, and diesel


30 posted on 09/16/2021 2:02:17 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Couple of basic questions for the promoters of this nonsense.

1) at 35-65 Jet A, how much more/or less fuel was consumed in said flight?

2) what was the increase/decrease in oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emitted

3) What became of the glycerin and other tailings from your conversion process?

Great that the plane made the flight and didn’t experience any malfunctions related to the Bio-Jet A. This is a nice victory that proves you can convert vegetable oil into Jet fuel and that it works.

However, converting used oil is one thing, re-directing food crops to fuel production is not an ideal use for those resources. They may be renewable, up to a point, but famines and other lean times due to crop failure can have catastrophic effects when food used to feed the people is redirects to make fuel for the new ruling class.


31 posted on 09/16/2021 2:08:23 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I loved flying BA. I’ll have to watch and wait.


32 posted on 09/16/2021 2:10:48 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Reprorexrex)
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To: servo1969

LIEberals LIE?


33 posted on 09/16/2021 2:30:21 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

LIEberals LIEing, again!


34 posted on 09/16/2021 2:31:31 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BFD...who cares?
Virtue-signaling A-holes


35 posted on 09/16/2021 2:33:06 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At what cost for bio-fuel?

Check out this Scientific American article FRom 2009: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/navy-investigates-biofuels-to-power-ships-airplanes/

$67.50 PER GALLON does not seem like a good deal to me!

“. . . the Navy uses at least seven different types of petroleum-based fuel and burns nearly 35 million barrels per year.”

[A barrel = 42 gallons]

You do the math!

[Anybody have a more recent update than 2009 cost for bio-fuel?]


36 posted on 09/16/2021 2:45:06 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Ouderkirk

GREAT POINT!

Corn for ethanol was a winner, food-cost-wise, wasn’t it?

We are still paying the plussed up food cost effects of that stupidity!

[Not to mention the millions of small engines just RUINED by the ethanol!]

One HAS to wonder how so many dumbasses in government get to make decisions and NEVER have to suffer the consequences of their dumbass decisions!


37 posted on 09/16/2021 2:50:55 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If it`s bacon fat, Qatar Airways will jump for joy at the low fuel price.
[What they don`t know won`t hurt `em.]


38 posted on 09/16/2021 2:51:23 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect?? It was NYC.)
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To: KC_Lion

Cholesterol is through the roof across the board!!!


39 posted on 09/16/2021 3:10:24 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...skip this woke flight and not end up in the ocean when the engines fail.”

My thoughts exactly...tater tots clogging up the fuel filters.


40 posted on 09/16/2021 3:45:43 PM PDT by RouxStir (No peein' in the gene pool.)
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