Flight uses partial fuel of fruit oil to cut carbon emissions

Air travel is such a common thing these days and that could also be another reason to why our environment is so messed up and greasy. To save the trouble, the Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 partially fuelled itself by fruit oil, a 50-50 blend of oil from a plum-sized fruit known as jatropha and traditional jet fuel. A demonstration was done for a two-hour flight. Apparently the greenhouse gas emissions from long-haul flights could be cut by 65 per cent by using the biofuel and up to 1.5 tons of fuel could be saved in a 12-hour flight, and cut carbon dioxide emissions by about five tons – around 60 per cent. While so much investment is going into going green, such inititatives are definitely a route to success.
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