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Virgin to fly using ‘green’ fuel by 2015

Technology

Rik Thomas
21 October 2011
 

The Virgin Atlantic airline has announced that it is planning to run scheduled flights using a new, ‘green’ fuel source from 2015. The new fuel, which is being developed by two firms, New Zealand-based LanzaTech and Swedish Biofuels, is ethanol-based and is produced by capturing the carbon that is emitted in the production of heavy industrial products such as steel. This carbon is then converted into ethanol using naturally occurring microbes and the ethanol is then blended with...

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