Richard Branson announces biofuel breakthrough
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Uploaded by ThisIsVirginAtlantic on Oct 11, 2011
We are announcing a world-first, low-carbon aviation fuel with half the carbon footprint of the standard, fossil-fuel alternative. The partnership represents a breakthrough in aviation fuel technology that will see waste gases from industrial steel production being captured, fermented and chemically converted for use as a jet fuel. The revolutionary fuel production process recycles waste gases that would otherwise be flared off into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide -- so is the next step forward from our previous biofuels work. We anticipate that within two to three years, Virgin Atlantic will use the new fuel on its routes from Shanghai and Delhi to London Heathrow, as LanzaTech develop facilities in China and India. We also hope that the technology will be retrofitted to UK facilities, as well as other facilities worldwide, enabling us to uplift a significant proportion of low-carbon fuel across the world.
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matthiashaenni 2 days ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Why no media coverage?
hmmm.
FINALDEST1 1 week ago in playlist Bio-Fuel Our Future
its too Expensive
Aviationnation10 4 months ago
THANK GOD SOMEONES DOING SOMETHING, WELL DONE!!
jimblue 4 months ago
Well done sir, but such developments need help for all our sakes. We need an international carbon levy right now to take into account the externalities of carbon intensive industries and add an economic incentive to promote the change to less climate destructive fuels such as this.
glontore 5 months ago
Well done Richard. You can make a bid difference green and fun way. Well done on it! Thanks blesses
8wealthyone8 5 months ago
This is incredible. Groundbreaking stuff. Leave it to a creative renegade like Sir Richard to blaze new trails in sustainability as well as travel. Kudos!
spewey111 5 months ago 2
Congrats to Virgin Atlantic for pushing the envelope in ways that most governments and large global corporations cannot seem to manage
bodoboi 5 months ago 2