US airlines begin powering flights with biofuels | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Alaska Airlines then announced it would operate 75 flights using a mix of 80% conventional jet fuels and 20% biofuels starting on Wednesday. Instead of algae-base, the airline is using used cooking oil or fast-food restaurant throwaways, said Robert Ames, vice-president of Dynamic Fuels, which produced the fuel.
"We can use vegetable oil. We can use used cooking oil," he said. "A good mental reference is McDonald's used fryer grease."
Since reaching 1.7 million barrels per day (MMbbl/d) in 2000, after falling to a low of 1.4 MMbbl/d in 2009, U.S. jet fuel demand rebounded by 2.2 percent year-on-year in 2010, based on monthly data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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I'm betting there are about 100,000 lawyers just waiting for one of these planes to go down with engine failure.
It won't matter whether the french fries fucked the engine or not--the jury will be made to think so.
I can see a budding Darrow pouring grease from his water pitcher into a drinking glass in court right now.
I guarantee the aviation CFO have not calculated the million$ in losses they'll face.
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