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/

3. http://www.startribune.com/business/284674971.html