Fasten your seatbeats: jet fuel made from algae.
Worried about the impact of rising oil prices on your holiday travel?
Well, here's an interesting new idea. The French-Dutch airline AirFrance-KLM has reportedly entered an agreement with Dutch technology company, AlgaeLink, to explore the development of jet fuel from algae oil.
AlgaeLink says it is cultivating algae in the Netherlands and Spain. It hopes to start delivering algae-derived oil to KLM by the end of 2008.
It's not a wierd as it may seem. Another New Zealand company, Aquaflow, says it has been working with Boeing on its own algae jet fuel. Richard Branson's airline, Virgin, has also been testing a biojet fuel, made from coconuts and palm oil.
Whether or not this brings down fuel prices is hard to say. From what I have read algae is an excellent, clean source of biodiesel. But it has so far proved expensive to produce. It would certainly reduce air pollution.
Click here to read more about AlgaeLink.
- David Adams
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Posted by: Anthony | June 02, 2008 at 09:16 AM
I agree with Anthony, this rocks. I was reading an article that said ATA airlines are filing for bankruptcy because of oil prices. Its called Jet Fuel Prices on the Rise. It was pretty interesting. Its on http://www.energyandoil.com/jet-fuel-prices-on-the-rise if anybody wants to read it. Pretty interesting to me at least.
Thanks ya'll
Posted by: Paul Hunt | June 02, 2008 at 09:45 AM
thks Paul, I'll check it out and we will check it out.
Posted by: David (The Fueling Station) | June 02, 2008 at 03:58 PM