Comments on: Jet fuels derived from plants may replace petroleum fuels by 2010, says Boeing http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/jet-fuels-derived-from-plants-may-replace-petroleum-fuels-by-2010-says-boeing/ Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nicholas Wordsworth http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/jet-fuels-derived-from-plants-may-replace-petroleum-fuels-by-2010-says-boeing/comment-page-1/#comment-6604 Nicholas Wordsworth Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:44:15 +0000 http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1613#comment-6604 Sounds like very good news: both for the environmental image of civil aviation, and for the average consumer. Perhaps some of the recent punitive taxes on air travel can be rescinded, if airlines begin using biofuels on a large scale - after all, the planes will only be re-emitting carbon already extracted from the atmosphere by plant growth. Particularly important, this transition will not require the construction of new aircraft or retrofitting of modified engines. One possible environmental issue could be that a huge new market for biofuels might prompt further clearances of natural forest to make room for extra plantations. Sounds like very good news: both for the environmental image of civil aviation, and for the average consumer. Perhaps some of the recent punitive taxes on air travel can be rescinded, if airlines begin using biofuels on a large scale – after all, the planes will only be re-emitting carbon already extracted from the atmosphere by plant growth. Particularly important, this transition will not require the construction of new aircraft or retrofitting of modified engines.

One possible environmental issue could be that a huge new market for biofuels might prompt further clearances of natural forest to make room for extra plantations.

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