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This is amazing news Folks! In Seattle, Washington, USA on 03-Dec-14 a Boeing aircraft was successfully flown with 15% Green Diesel mixed with rest of the Jet Fuel. This Boeing 787 was named as ecoDemonstrator & it offers tremendous potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in aviation. This green diesel is made from vegetable oils, used cooking oil & waste animal fats. Mc Donalds in UAE is using this Green Fuel for its logistics fleet since many years. Elsewhere in the world this fuel is used in Ground transportation in trucks but this is the first time such an experiment is made in aviation industry. This will have multiple benefits. Foremost is the green benefit. Our environment will be protected and saved & another is that the cost of Air travel will reduce. Julie Felgar, a director of environmental strategy at Boeing's commercial airplane unit said that, they will provide data from several ecoDemonstrator flights to support efforts to approve this fuel for commercial aviation and help meet our industry's environmental goals. The production of Green diesel is cheaper & simpler. The plus point of using this is that it can be used in diesel vehicles without modifying the existing engines. This green diesel was supplied by Finland based Neste Oil. It is believed that this fuel will produce 50-90 percent less carbon emissions than conventional diesel. All these developments that are taking place in the modern world are not sustainable & they are harming our fragile eco-system more than ever it was harmed in the past. In this situation, I trust that eventually the world will be a greener & sustainable place to live as the scientists are taking big strides is reducing the Greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing the carbon footprint. sources: 1. http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-completes-test-flight-green-diesel-184505621.html 2. http://www.gizmag.com/boeing-worlds-first-green-diesel-flight/35057/ |
  
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Thanks Muhammad, They use the used cooking oil & waste animal fats as well. Thus its a mixed bag.
Thanks Rohan, Ashwini, Arushi, Rahul, Bindu & Rin.
Thanks for your warm wishes Rin. Awaiting your similar report.
Posted 08-12-2014 13:28
I'm glad that the pilot project of flight using green diesel was success. I wish, other industrial countries such us China will follow this step. I'm going to report about the usage of "perhaps green diesel" in my place. Thanks for informing my dear fellow! Always success for you :^)
Posted 05-12-2014 12:25
Green diesel with tremendous probability to reduce emissions. Wow :) Hope we will get to hear more results and wider application of this kind of eco- friendly Green Diesel
Posted 05-12-2014 09:46
Thanks for sharing Raunak. It's indeed high time that all sectors start moving towards sustainable operations using renewable sources of energy.
Posted 05-12-2014 01:15
Cheaper, Simpler and less carbon emission, Wow all in one.Quite amazing package.
Thanks for sharing Raunak
Posted 05-12-2014 00:40
well done
Posted 04-12-2014 22:21
This is very encouraging news. The apt use of waste & used oils and sustainable environment are all welcome steps taken by modern scientists.
Well shared Raunak.
Posted 04-12-2014 19:34
Well done Boieng Well done. I am impressed by how their improvements have growing so much today! The problem of using biofuel is that they come from a certain product of plant species, so a lot of people cutting down natural forests and planting homogeneous trees instead. For this matter, i believe that Boeing and UAE have a very strict use of biofuel. I hope they get it fairly.
Posted 04-12-2014 16:11